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if not now, when?

if not now, when?

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The speaker knows a young lady from university who decided to leave school in her third year. The speaker admires her courage but believes that everything a person engages in should make sense to them and provide emotional energy. The speaker discusses reasons why people may choose to leave school, such as not liking it or feeling it is unnecessary. They argue that education and idleness can redirect a person's life. The speaker encourages listeners to make a change if they feel the need to, emphasizing the importance of following one's own sense of purpose. I know of a beautiful young lady from the university. We actually only knew each other closely enough for a few weeks before she decided to leave school. Yes, she decided to leave school. She wanted to start a new program and it was her third year out of five. You can't imagine how much I tried to convince her not to leave. It was against my world view. It wasn't typical for me. It was weird. But I admired, I really admired her courage and meditating on this subject, thinking about this applicative case of passion over irrationality, in my opinion, what I would call it. I think I have a few thoughts. My name is Joshua Francis and you are listening to The Think Podcast. You're welcome. Let's think about the cases. If I decide to leave school, it's probably because I didn't like school, or found school too difficult, or I had a pregnancy which is odd for my gender, or I am forced to support my family or myself, or probably I got expelled for an unruly behavior. All of these scenarios are often fictional for some of us, but they are real for others. I would argue for school that while some of us don't fancy its promises, which include teaching us problem-solving skills, meeting deadlines, working in a team, time management, resourcefulness, and thriving through struggles, some of us really don't care for our promises. And it's okay. We kind of feel like a lot of these things we can learn them outside of the environment of school, which is true. But my argument is that everything that a human being engages in has to make sense to that person. Every activity, every label, every protest, every injury has to make sense, in that we can try to explain why. But when a human being finds it hard to explain why, we begin to lose the emotional energy that is essential and ubiquitous to all labels of man. In my opinion, this is why we choose to submit or give in. And trust me, this has nothing to do with school. Whatever you engaged in currently makes sense to you, and it is why you do it. This sense or reason doesn't have to be positive to engage you to continue. It only has to convince you so there is available emotional energy to engage label. The reason of why you do things doesn't have to make sense. It doesn't have to be positive or negative. People only do things when the reason of doing it is positive. No, there are thieves around. The reason why they convince themselves that what they are doing is okay. It's not positive, morally speaking, but they do it because it makes sense to them. And because it makes sense, it supplies the required, requisite, ubiquitous emotional energy to engage that label. Because every activity of man needs a label. It's laborious. Everything, every single day, there is a label that has to be engaged. And doing that label makes sense to us. And the reason of why it makes sense to us supplies an emotional energy. Every label needs an emotional energy to make sense. It's kind of like the cause of why you're doing something. The emotional energy, apart from other sources of other kinds and natures of energy, is one of the energy that is very, very necessary for you to engage label. On this premise, rediscovering to give up on something is to lose your emotional energy for that thing. Now, this something is like an allegory or a metaphor for school or job or relationship. The redirection of a person's life is when they lose their emotional energy for one thing and credit that energy to something else. Education and idleness are the two perpetrators of this redirection. I have discovered time and time again, whether plain or obscure to humanity, it's enlightenment or inactivity that redirects people's lives. My friend lost her energy for her course of study. Hers was enlightenment, the civilization of her mind, the refinement of her purpose, the fortification of her will, and the gift of opportunity. Her case was peculiar. It might not be the same for you, but regardless, I loved her courage, and I want to encourage you to do the same, if you can. You don't need all the details. So to wrap up, whether it's school, your profession, or relationship, and you want to make a change, you can, and if not now, when?