Hey y'all, it's me again. Today, I'm going to cheap out on the think-of-a-situation thing and instead just steal one of Laura's prompts. So here we are, with What I Would do if I Could Quit School 2.0.
1. First off, I would win the lottery. After all, I sort of need school if I want to get a decent job one day, and so in the real world I'll be staying in school for a long while yet. In this world that I leave school, however, I need money. Therefore winning the lottery seems like a logical first step.
2. I'd travel the world with my family. Hey, I just won the lottery, right? I've got money to burn.
3. I'd do all the other generic things that come with winning the lottery like giving money to charity and all that jazz.
4. I would actually do what this question was intended to be about; In other words, what I would create and do with my time, not how I'd spend my money from a lottery I'd just won. And so;
5. I'd write like crazy. I've gotta immortalize myself somehow, and writing some classic novel seems like a good way to do that. Plus... I just like writing.
6. Wait, I just thought of this one, which perhaps would be the first thing I would do... if I could quit school, I'd go and gloat to all of my friends who had to stay in school!
7. I'd probably play an unhealthy amount of video games.
8. I'd learn to speak a new language. This is perhaps ironic as my least favourite subject in school is french, but still...
9. I'd learn to play a musical instrument. I got pretty good with a ukulele in elementary school, but the instrument was school supplied and at the end of grade six a promising career as a world-famous ukulele player was squandered.
10. I would try a polyphasic sleep cycle. Has anyone else heard about these? Basically, a polyphasic sleep cycle is an alternate sleep cycle as opposed to the usual "sleep eight hours every night" cycle. Most of these consist of taking multiple short naps throughout the day instead of one big eight hour chunk. By taking these short naps, you can trick your body into immediately going into REM sleep (the most efficient sleep stage for you 're-charging') when you fall asleep instead of going through other, less efficient stages of sleep before you hit this stage. By instantly going into REM sleep, you can get more rest in a shorter period of time then the usual sleep cycle. Some users of polyphasic sleep cycles report being better rested on 2-4 hours of sleep a day then they ever were with the eight hours a night gig. Am I making any sense here? No? Oh, just read the article in the link.
11. And finally, I would ski. Skiing would have to be my favourite sport, and so what better way to spend my freedom from school? This, of course, would only be possible in the winter. If it was summer, then hiking would take the place of skiing.
I can only hope that one day, after I'm finished with school for real, this dream will become a reality. Of course, when I think about it, a lot of these things I can do even with school. I can still travel. I can still write, still learn a new language. Still learn to play an instrument. I ski and hike fairly often anyways. Heck, I can do everything on this list, with a bit of luck. You know... maybe school isn't all that bad after all.
Thanks for reading,
-Mark
PS: URGENT, ALL IMPORTANT ADVICE: There are three things you must learn to do in your life if you want it to be awesome You must learn how to bike, to ski, and to swim. This is the holy trinity of things-everyone-should-know-how-to-do-but-don't. Learn to do all these things. If you don't then you are missing out, my friend. (I suppose you could add skating to the list, but the holy quadnity doesn't have the same ring to it. Maybe water skiing, to. I dunno, I've never tried.)
PPS: Did you guys know that PS stands for post-script? I didn't know that until about a year ago and it blew my mind. So there you go.
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