Yesterday, my 7-year-old daughter asked me, “Dad, why didn’t you go to college?” I knew I had to answer carefully so as not to make her think that college is useless. Better yet, I do not want to upset my wife who, being a college graduate herself, gives high importance to finishing college. While I was still thinking for an answer, my daughter asked another question, “Don’t you want to be a doctor?”
I knew I had to answer so I simply said, “Because being a doctor won’t make me rich.”
At this point, my wife asked me, “And how do you plan to get rich?” to which I replied, “by doing the things that I need to do.”
Then again, my daughter asked, “but why didn’t you go to college?” and so I told my daughter the story.
Truth is, I never wanted school.
 Though I’m always among the top of the class to the point where the first honor asks me for help, I never really had any interest in school. I find it boring and slow. I am a dreamer and I always wanted to fulfil my dreams and I find school to be slow in helping me fulfil my dreams. No offense to the school system which I find to be good in general. It’s just that I don’t fit in it. But that didn’t stop me from reaching for my dreams. I experimented with things, tried a lot of options, and went through a lot of failures but I would say that I’ve learned a lot more outside of school than what my classmates were learning inside those classrooms.
At the end, I encouraged my daughter to go to school. After all it is so far the best place other than home for her to hone her skills.
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