What the hell is it? Who knows best? What is the best schooling?

School assignments give you something to do. If you’re not in school, no one will give you any assignments, so you have to make up your own assignments, and not too many people are good at that. So that’s why school works. It puts you around people, you’re in a social setting, you make friends and you remember the recesses, lunch breaks, team practices and secret crushes. It gives you a reason to keep going and its manual is:

• listen to your teacher
• make your parents happy
• do your homework
• study
• get good marks
• and you will have a better life.

That was SO me baby! I loved school. It was awesome.

But then something kicked in. I grew up. I realized that it wasn’t school that I liked, it was the act of DOING. I was the one motivating myself. I was the one questioning things, reading things and getting stuff done. I was the one who was teaching myself. I was the one who beat myself, worried myself, stressed myself and hated myself. I was passionate and I didn’t know why I just couldn’t get to what I wanted. I pursued a creative arts program in grade 7 and that’s when I discovered graphic design. It was fun! I liked computers and programs and it had no boundaries! I could teach myself as much as I wanted and the teacher had no control. So I kept teaching myself. At the age of 12, the computer became my toy. So much to explore! Graphic design was what kept me going in school, but what I really wanted was to be a super sports star.

That didn’t work out. So I chose an art school and studied graphic design — why the hell not? It was easy and fun.

Then I started discovering that, um, I need a passion. I started seeing what graphic design for what it truly was and then I started hating it as “school”. Everyone was doing it. It wasn’t as fun as before. It was like everyone else was discovering it and the profession of it became dull for me.

Who am I? Why am I doing this?

School couldn’t answer that question because school has only one answer and the answer is: “it’s not my problem - you chose to go here”

So education became exploring myself.

And that really happened in my last year of school. From 0 to 21, it took me that many years to realize that education is freedom of expression, networking and collaboration.

I take full responsibility for thinking that way because I know who I am now.

I AM education baby. All I do is school me.

Who doesn’t want the world to be a better place?

I don’t know if I know anyone who doesn’t. And I also don’t believe that people enjoy seeing people suffer and die unless they disconnect themselves from reality and live in illusion.

Speaking of illusion, I think Time is an illusion. I don’t believe that it exists. Everyone knows that we live in the Now. But it’s not just Now that we can focus on. Our brains are much more complex than that and unless we live in the countryside, down in the valley or up on the mountains, life just ain’t all that simple as Now. What about doing things and getting things done without having any preconceived ideas of how long it will take? What about doing what your heart desires, what your brain connects, what your vision gravitates? What about all that energy inside you that you didn’t know existed until you saw that photo, that film, that book, that baby, that child, that boy, that girl, that woman, that man, that old man, that old lady, that store, that game, that dance, that song, that laughter, that smile?

Does any of that have anything to do with Time? 

Oh, I guess that boy, girl part does. 

So let me ask you: Are you old? Or are you young? Are you a baby, a child?

We watch our bodies develop and as they develop we start basing our actions on Time, because that’s what our parents tell us, that’s what the institutions tell us, the teachers tell us, the family tells us, the media tells us, the best friend tells us, the spouse tells us, the sibling tells us.

Let it go.

Time don’t exist baby.

You want to change the world - get to it. Follow your heart, feel the energy and use your brain. Love and power are determined by the number of people you touch. Grow your networks and together you are one.

If you are afraid (to do what you wanna do), you’ll never be happy. If you are brave (and do what you wanna do), you’ll be a leader. It’s as simple as that.

Are you ready for the challenge? Or are you still afraid to change the/your world?

So now that I’ve revealed my disbelief in Time, I should at least make some sense of the theory of relativity and science in regards to this matter.

I don’t believe in perfection, absolutes or even words being the best way to define Nature. Nature is nature. Can nature talk, write, pay your bills, or tell you what you need to do to get a good paying job? No, I don’t think Nature had a clue that that’s what humans cherished in life. Nature is God. I don’t care who you are or what you think. Nature is God. It’s simple, I’ll say it again: Nature is God. All together now: “NATURE IS GOD.”

Good.

So now that we have that straight, why are we trying to define Nature through Science and God through Religion? Science and Religion are systems designed by humans to break apart Nature and God and make them more complex. I don’t blame us though - we are Humans. It is Human Nature to be inquisitive and since we have Nature in Human Nature, we are naturally responsive to our Body and Mind. Our Senses are what keep us alive and guide us to happiness.

It is Time to:

1. Follow your Senses through Body and Mind
2. Accept Nature as God
3. Experience the naturally inquisitive Human Nature respond to Nature

Assuming you could live a whole century and witness society develop decade by decade, at some point you’ll realize that you were always a child and no one listened to you, not even you. All you really wanted to do was play, and no one thought it was the right thing to do, especially the people who loved you dearly. So you didn’t even dare to, because it was Time that was holding you back. It was your fear of Time and everyone else’s proof of Time that stopped you. You started something, it didn’t go well, and you thought it wasn’t the right Time. So you beat yourself and cried inside. “No one gets what I’m trying to do!” You brushed it off and went back to being afraid.

It’s time to let go of Time and let it only be determined by the impact of what you have done. You take it out of you, put it out there, and see what sticks and what doesn’t. You enjoy the stickies — they can get you a little high. Sometimes they can get you too high and you might loose your head. The one’s that didn’t stick are your friends too, and they came to fight for their right. You love the stickies so much that you may forget what was in you in the first place and what you were trying to do. But that’s not Time! That’s learning by doing! It’s called research, art, poetry, design, activism, development, growth — it’s all of those things that are simply experienced. It’s not slow, or fast, it just gets determined by how much you do and how many people you tag on the way.

Play tag. It’s time to play tag!

You’re It!