Here Comes a Revolution!
Too little, too late? It's up to you.
At one point in my life, I was teaching at a university. The leadership realized the difference in quality between my materials, and the rest, and decided to get rid of me.
So far, so good; that’s no news to me:
The disturbing part came after that. An envoy and a committee visited me at my office and asked me,
“Sir, do you want us to start a student revolution?”
In response, I said,
“Just take care of yourselves. I don’t want to work with people who are doing this to me, anyway.”
The truth was that I was unable to improve my materials any further, no matter how far the rest of the university was behind, and I always want to go further than anyone else before.
This time, I’m telling you to do what is right. Not for my sake; I do not matter. Do you think I’ve gone into all this trouble since May 8th, 2022, for my sake? It’s all about you and the way you will make up you mind.
You must be the strong one:
I must be getting stronger, Ray. I don't have revenge fantasies anywhere near as much as I used to. The feeling isn't replaced by anything like forgiveness or love (I'm only human), but more of a lack of interest. More interesting things to think of.
I had 5 children and I thought we were in pretty good shape to send them to college. Then my oldest got horrendously ill and no one could even give us a diagnosis. Blew through all of our savings and every penny we could get our hands on. There was no money for college. There were scholarships and bright futures but our family was not functional and 3 of them did not attend college. I felt guilty for years that we hadn’t been able to provide that for our children, but looking back it’s okay. My children have a great moral compass and their souls are intact. I’ll take that over a college education any day.