Sup3rnality

Sometimes I wonder...

Maybe another reason why people tend to look down at the degree that I am pursuing is that they are afraid. Unlike other courses like engineering, law, accounting etc., we look at the real world straight in the face. Reading literature allows you to see the human condition in plain words, in plain emotions and it's real. We discuss things that people won't usually talk about, or avoid. We look into history, into politics, into society and culture and into psychology; dissect them and understand what lies beneath the layer of words. Learn from it to undestand the world. But they tell us we are the rejects, the ones who aren't good enough to take more "elite" degrees. They say what's the use of studying words of (mostly dead) people, and what can we possibly get from it... The truth is, they're afraid of us. We'll be the ones who knows knows what this world is really about while they go about their normal lives in oblivion. Of course, not saying that they don't discuss all life's issues, but the difference is that we make it our business to know. We'll be the ones changing the world. The rest might be building it, but we're the ones who will inspire them to. They're afraid of us because they'll be reading our books one day and quoting us while they stand in line to get their books signed.

Love, LinZy the proud BENL (soon-to-be) graduate