DECLARATION OF LEARNING INDEPENDENCE

It's been a while since I've got ready for school, took in a big breath of fresh air and exhaled, "Today, I want to learn something that I haven't learned before."  The human mind was meant to ponder and inquire, but the tedious routine of school forces us to learn the things we find less interesting or even less practical in today's world.  I doubt that I will be balancing my checkbook with a geometry formula sometime in the future, but if I were to take an independent step back and look at the bigger picture, there will always be those certain individuals who love math with a passion.  This brings about the question: why do people love math when I hate it so much?  Aren't all people alike?  Simply put, the answer is no.  Everybody is interested by something -- whether it be math, science, history, or literature; therefore everybody possesses their own declaration of learning independence.  They only need to declare it.  This is why I'm declaring mine today.  It's been too long since I've gotten lost on a subject until the five minutes that have passed by suddenly became realized to be five hours that have passed by, yet the one thing that has interested me in this way is the combination of science and music.  I could seemingly sit for hours looking at the newest health updates online while listening to Kyle Landry play one of my favorite piano pieces, and I could spend hours studying the psychological effects that music has over us when we listen to it.  By declaring my learning independence, it's time to take into account what I want to learn on my own while applying it to the things that I am forced to know.  My declaration of learning independence determines what I love to learn.  I could grow old studying these things, and I think that's the point.  Nelson Mandela once said, "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."  Why can't we influence the world by educating ourselves in the things we love to do?