Yesterday a friend who is a college student told me a peer asked her about her major:
“I am double majoring in literature and anthropology,” she said.
“Why?” Ask her interlocutor
“For fun,” she said.
This ended the conversation. For her classmate, who could only think of school as transactional, as delivering a job of some kind, “fun” did not compute.
On the one hand, I am tempted to repeat what I have said in this space before: School, like work and life, should be designed around fun whenever possible.
But on the other, I wish to add: What’s an answer you might give to someone asking, in essence, “how come you do that?” which would get to the essence of the thing so deeply they might be left speechless? And, by extension, you could have no doubts?
How come you walk in the city? Because that is where my thoughts are.
What say you?