The classroom of life..

(picture courtesy of a fellow student [or teacher?] and friend, Mr. Francis Verdelet)

It seems like we're all sat in the same classroom and yet only a handful of us are looking out the window !!
Weird.. 


They're teaching us about the rules of the world, how it all works 'by the book'.. how the world is run by bosses, politicians, bank managers and the list goes on and on.. how we are supposed to live by it all just like cattle, programmed to follow blindly to their teachings.. 


For those of us staring out at the world, that's all playing remotely in the background and we are not acknowledging it.. we are instead focussed on what we are going to do as soon as the bell rings, our imaginations running wild about how we are going to rush out there to kiss the sun, taste that rainbow and learn how it all works 'in nature's way'.. and we always wonder about those who linger back in the classroom staring blankly at the screen even during the commercial breaks, how it must feel to be like that.. 


And every time the bell sounds, we hurry past those who were so taken in by the lecture, in order to discover the world as if it was our first time, enjoying every second of it.. we go out there so we can be free, playing happily outside.. 


The bell's about to ring yet again and I will end this first post here as I want to be among the first ones out there.. Are you staying in or are you going out there to be free too?