When I was in High School, in the 9th grade, my English teacher, Mrs. Gross, gave me back a test she’d corrected about Huckleberry Fin. The last question was an opinion question that I don’t recall the specifics of except that it was definitely asking for what we thought about some aspect of Mark Twain’s famous book. And she marked my answer as wrong.
After class, I went to Mrs. Gross and spoke up for myself. “I didn’t think an opinion could be wrong.” And she said something like, “well, yours is.”
I don’t remember the rest of the conversation because that was the moment I decided that I’d had enough of that stupid school and I was going to drop out. I was coming to the age of 16 and I would have the legal right to get the hell out of that place.
I didn’t like High School because it all just felt so wrong. Nothing about it seemed to foster real learning and development of my gifts and talents. It was a pretty big school of 1200 students. It was essentially all white with about 1% diversity which bothered me. The jocks ruled the school, and I was in the “heads.” I was a pot smoker, and I hung out with the hippie types.
I didn’t know it at the time, but the main reason I was into smoking pot was because I was so bored.
When I was in 3rd grade, there was a lot of talk about me skipping a grade. My teacher, whom I loved, and my parents knew I was not challenged enough and being bored and distracted I was a bit of a problem. I read extra books for extra credit each week, and that helped.
What I can see now is that those challenges led me to seek alternatives. The frustration and sense of limitation we sometimes feel can lead us to make changes that have been available to us for a while and we’ve been ignoring them.
I’ve was fired from a job I wasn’t willing to quit – but should have.
We learn to tolerate things that we don’t have to. When we’re upset and feeling uninspired, sometimes the answer is to turn within and see if we’re being guided elsewhere and to fully stop tolerating what isn’t working for us anymore.
We don’t have to get upset and blame others – we can simply open to Spirit’s guidance, affirm our willingness and then make that change.
It takes courage and Spirit will even provide that if we’re willing to heed the call!
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