Geography class blows my mind.

I got out of Geography and World Events class ten minutes ago.

You know when you have a great thought that needs to be expounded upon? You know there's so much more to it, you just have to figure it out? You have to clear your mind and organize all your ideas so that they're all together into one pretty little epiphany that makes sense? Or do you not know what I mean and I'm sounding like a mad freak of nature?

Okay, then...

So I had this epiphany last semester (Fall, 2011), and I consider it the greatest epiphany I've ever had the fortune of receiving. Why? Because it changed the way I see things. It changed how I go about learning things. It possibly changed the course of my life.

There is more to life than growing up and developing just like everyone else.

Think about it. How do most people go about their lives?

Wild, stupid, immature, rebellious teenager. -> Crazy college student just trying to get a job/career. -> Marriage and children. -> Stressed about finances and debt. -> Hopefully, eventually, retirement.

My epiphany was basically commentary on this typical "growing up" in the average person's life. "Why do I have to be sentenced to a life like that? I don't want a life like that. The bar can be raised so much higher."

I just didn't know how exactly to take a different path. And this is where geography class comes in.

Leave it to the duo of Adam Hailstone (my mentor) and Oliver DeMille (http://oliverdemille.com/) to philosophically hit me in the face. My question as to how to take a path of leadership, initiative and happiness in my life, was answered.

This, reader, is that pretty little epiphany I was talking about.

Click to englarge so you can read it. :)

What you're looking at is the whiteboard of today's class.

The road to leadership begins with the decision - in the early years - to love knowledge. And let it be known, I am the luckiest kid on the planet.

Because I came to a family who didn't put me in the public school system. As a kid, education meant school with my siblings in the backyard and snacks. I came to love learning this way, and now that I have been thrust into high-school, a scholar phase, I feel well on my way down the path of leadership.

I was blessed to have parents and grandparents who have are going down/been on the leadership road. They have always encouraged me to rise above the masses.

Finally, my plans for the future pertaining to my potential are falling into place