[blazey]

Well too be fair, it's the only part of your life you can really take a reckless risk and hope for the best, once you realise your path then you follow it. I changed my min on what I wanted to do at college at the last minute, pushed every boundary there was at college, got into uni then got taught that it's fantastic to be like me and bend the rules a bit.

I view rules as guidelines, kind of a safe route if you may. You follow the rules though and you never really stand out. If you bend the rules and find new methods of doing things, that's when you are really noticed. I stand by that and I always will, because it has got me where I am right now and it's thought that I am going to go far, so why should I shun that?

It's only when people aren't guided with their questioning that they do the completely wrong thing. I was always told to question the WAY things are done, but understand why we do them in the first place. There is never just one way to do things, but generally the reason we do them in the first place is important.

For example, nobody would contend that we should all get a certain level of education, that is our right in this society, but there are several ways or doing so. You can go to school, and then there are different types of schools, you can be home educated, you can go to boarding school and live away from home etc. Some clever person decide to use the internet to create online courses, and things like wikipedia, google, yahoo etc. Someone changed things, and you can't change things if you don't question the 'rules'.

I used to say, as someone who has pretty much always struggled with sleep, what is the point of turning up at school half asleep and learning nothing when I can get some sleep and turn up awake the next day fully awake and refreshed and do it twice as well? I was fortunate, I wanted to do well because I was told I was capable. The problem with most of today's youth is that they're being pushed along a system and not getting individual praise and attention that you need in order to learn.

I'm not going to be ashamed of my ways though just because it isn't the norm. There is a quote somewhere that says it takes a strong person to be themselves in a world that is trying to make them the same as everyone else. Maybe it's silly living by quotes, I read them day in and day out to keep myself in the right mindset, but it's always the most fascinating and diverse people that are quoted, and I'm happy enough with that.