We've all been there - between the notes and the projects, it all starts to feel so unimportant.
Sometimes you start to wonder why you spend three hours studying for a test when you may never need the trivia to earn a pay check.
It's so easy to think that the system is lying to us and that education is useless.
And maybe that's right.
Perhaps none of us need a high GPA or a piece of paper with a golden stamp.
Some of us don't. Some of us are born with the skills we need to make a living and be perfectly happy.
Some of us aren't.
Either way, whether you go straight to the job market or take a four year detour, there's one thing I can promise you- nothing is pointless.
Those three words aren't easy for me to type, especially not now.
But their truth remains.
It may seem so ridiculous to attend a class simply to have a syllabus read to you while our neighbors are in distress, losing everything they own.
It may seem so miniscule to write a paper while millions of people are suffering in slavery around the globe.
It may seem unfair to shell out thousands of dollars in tuition while some children can't afford elementary school, much less the clothing and food they need.
And I assure you it feels absolutely disgusting to sit in a class room and laugh while there's still a gaping hole of grief in your heart.
But above all of these things, education still has a purpose.
Without education, without knowledge, and without wisdom, we can't change the problems in our world.
While some men with strong hands can wield a chainsaw and help repair wounded towns without ever needing a school teacher, the accountants who manage the relief funds to rebuild cannot.
While the courage it takes to rescue slaves from dangerous oppression needs no classroom, the planning it takes to work out the plans does.
And while the tuition we pay seems so heart wrenching in comparison to our world's desperate children, perhaps the skills our degrees provide are the very things we can use to provide for them.
As painful as sitting in class is just a month after losing someone you love, the memory of how proud they would be makes it all worth while.
Education alone helps no one, but what we do with it can change the world in the way God created us to.
Your place in that may be to use your God-given skills and never need to open a book.
Your place in that may be to take your degree and do what it takes to make the world a better place.
Each piece is needed and interdependent.
The decision is all up to you — which piece are you?
Your schooling and/ or talents are only pointless if you allow them to go to waste.
