“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.” Friedrich Nietzsche
The Hard Question Stories do expire, we just cling to them long after they'e ceased to have any relevance, some stories inspire with magic and intrigue, offering possible futures others open heart and mind, there are other stories which hold us prisoner to yesterday. With every step into a new day we have need of new, grand ideas, expansions of every horizon to push us beyond the rut of the comfortable coma we've induced ourselves into, rather than find our points of departure from the histories we've imagined and which hold us shackled to the wall of our own making. Now is the time to let the past go, time to kill the images we have trusted and worshipped and ask the question of tomorrow, Who am I really? Copyright 2023 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®️
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Yikes.. hard advice to follow when writing a memoir, Paul, but perhaps writing is a method to accomplish exactly what you suggest!
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Actually, which great writer was it who said that we write about things best afterward, in serene contemplation upon them? Maybe it’s just the thing to create inner distance/perspective…
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I am so glad I put my higher education administration narrative in the past.
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Myself, I skipped full ride scholarships from the Ivy Leagues offered on HS graduation at 16 ~ I’ll bet what I felt coming was exactly what you grew away from. There wouldn’t have been any classical sonnets, let’s put it that way. What a circus. Too bad.
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I was in nontraditional education administration, which was idealistic and focused on learning when I started my career. Then came the Internet, and it became all about getting butts in seats and keeping them there, as colleges and outfits such as StraighterLine (don’t get me started on them) jumped on the cash cow bandwagon. (Excuse the mixed metaphor.)
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Oh dear. Very sorry to hear it. Guess we go back to Keasey’s formula, “Each one teach one.”
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“Teach” and “learn” being the operative words.
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😉
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We certainly must.
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Yes, the exploitation of education as money.
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😦
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Yes, a valid and valuable part of life, but never defining, especially the negatives.
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I let it define me for way too long.
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I feel that, I did too.
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Wow! 👌☺️
We do so love to keep one another in these invisible cages, do we not?
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Sadly we do Ana, need more keys distributed 😉
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Haha, the keys o’ LUV!! 🔐💖
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Absolutely, the only way 🙂
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Absolutely the only. 🙏
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❤️
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I’d be tempted to say (to French politicians):
You’re so busy deconstructing the past you can’t dream the future.
😉
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It’s going on everywhere I think, so we must say to all.
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Yep.
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Wow! Yes, let go the past.
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We really must, such a weight to be shackled by. Thank you Rupali. 🙂
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Definitely a hard question. It’s quite an adventure getting to the answer.🙂
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