This came to us from a Rebel who Learned How, and wishes to remain anonymous, reason stated in the end…
For years when I was growing up I didn’t want to become a part of the system… so I chose to drop out of college… not go to school… I wanted to be a rebel… and I was convinced that I could make great money doing that and in doing that I learned because I had such great disdain for the system and I rebelled against it so much that I thought I was out of the system…
Turns out I only became a part of another system, a more deprived part of it, because we do not partake in any of the excesses of the actual system… right then and there I realized no matter where I go there is a system… even a counter system… or the counter culture as it’s currently called
“I’m a rebel… I’ll never do that otherwise I’m a sell out…”
That is the refrain that is commonly repeated.
“Rebel against the system…”
First mistake: Rebel!
That was my first mistake, rebelling against the system… because when I used to get tickets or protest my taxes I lost all legal recourse against the system… because I rejected the system, and the system was more powerful.
Second mistake: Slave…
When I started to obey the law because I made it my master I started to learn that there were many things out of my control and they would just happen to people and because that was the law. I never fought it so I was a victim of circumstance…
Insight: Utilize The System!
Then I learned it was about utilizing the system… which was hard for me because, you have to remember: I had started out as a rebel and then learned to obey it… and then I learned laws were made to be were made to be utilized …
When I was in college one time I had gotten straight A’s… 6 classes in a row… and I paid my money… took the classes… gotten the grades… But when it came time to get my grades… Half of them were taken away… why?
The Victim
Unbeknownst to me I had broken the rules. And I was pissed off and angry and felt like a complete victim.
I was like
“fuck it! I’ve been screwed over… I’ll never get them back this is just another example of the system kicking Me around…”
And then a woman… actually the one I went to complain to about this… listened to me and how fair my plight was… and I told her how unfair it was and then she told me she was sorry but there was nothing that she could do for me… Shit… I was on the brink of tears… it was so god damn unfair… but as she finished telling me there was nothing she could do for me… she said
“You know what you should do? You should appeal it…”
and I told her it will never work… I’ll just end up getting fucked over by the system like I already have… it’s just a waste of money… but then she looked at me and said:
“it probably is but, you should appeal it, it’s not a lot of money (it was only like 3 bucks)”
And she pushed the form towards me and she was like:
“it’s really not a lot of paper work all you have to do is get your professors to sign off…”
So I was like
“fuck it… I’m not going to get it anyways but it’s only a few bucks and I might as well try anyways.”
I went home that day feeling absolutely miserable in every way… and couple weeks later I was still sour on what happened. I went to my post box. Quite frankly I had already assumed those grades were gone… I pulled out the letter fully expecting the hear I was denied only to see that the university gave them all back!
And that’s only one example of how I almost missed the train. Rebel…
Today I work with clients in a drug and alcohol program, and for the most part they perpetually try to fight the system.
Not because the program they are in is correct but because there is a system that is involved… remember, a system is an over arching organizing structure. It’s the thing that keeps things from being messy… and to those of you who know how messy things can be imagine no structure…
Cause and Effect
When I was in the marines there was a system you did x, y, z,… when you were told do and if you chose to rebel or to break the rules the system had ways of dealing with you in order to put the system in balance…
Now let’s bring it back to a more individual level… there are things that you do… and you do them… they are like rules that you HAVE to adhere too… it’s like a run a way train… you can either choose to break those rules or to try to circumvent or even try to obey them but for most people after they do all that they still have their same problem…
My recommendation to you is to utilize these rules… and to know there will never be a right answer but there will be a right enough answer that will allow you to proceed.
Remember my school grades? I almost lost that battle, because I wasn’t in my right answer to them. Let’s face it: I broke the rules, I just didn’t know I did. Thanks to good advice I managed to be right enough in my response so things ended up working out. They can for you too rebel. If you rebel the right way: utilize the system…
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