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I have recently come to the realisation that by the time I reach 27, I would have lived 1/3rd of the average life expectancy and just attained a university degree in Law: what real accomplishment would I have to show for myself? Nothing. I would just be starting out in the "real world," an infant, a mere toddler of life...at 27! I don't know much about maths, but I do know that 1/3rd is a lot, especially in regards to my life - all the more so when I realise that I would have achieved nothing by that age.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think education is a bad thing. It's just a shame, and sort of depressing, that it has to drag out for so long.

The more I think about this situation, the more I become infuriated and agitated by it. When I die, for we all do, the next generation will just repeat whatever I - and you - have learned in our life times. Human life is repetative and boring. To me, it's an absolute astonishment that we've managed to have technological breakthroughs so quickly, recently.

This naturally leads us to ask, linked in some obscure way to the above, "what is the purpose of life?" We are all from dust, and to dust shall we return. Our achievements are as nothing in the grand scheme of things. Our solar system is an insignificant speck on the map of the greater universe, much less significant is our earth, much less ourselves. Our toils are for nothing, and when we die, the next generation will toil the same toils we toiled, again.

But let me not be too harsh on the entire system on which the human race functions. Let's see it all out. I am planning on a law degree. For what purpose? To make money with which I can buy food and shelter; if i'm lucky, a nice mode of transport such as a jet plane.
Therefore, in order just to survive I dedicate 1/3rd of my life to education.

If I wish to achieve something more, such as having my name forever remembered in the history of mankind, I will have to pull off something extremely spectacular with the remainder of my life. I'm not too hopeful.

Anyway, seeing as the only reason I persue education is to be able to provide sustenance for myself and one day, I hope, a wife and children, I may as well ditch education here and now, find my "one true love," elope to a far away forest, live on nothing but sludge and grass roots, and write poetry on the sad condition of the human race.

Fittingly depressing for a first entry, I think.