Each day, people are submitting resumes and cover letters to attain a position, selling the best part of themselves. Many other young people submit essays and applications for a large quantity of money to gain adult education. The same system in play goes for those applying for admissions at any university. Everyone is competing against each other for an approval. In this process, one is expected to gain a sense of self-worth if accepted, if rejection does not play its trick.

Despite many saying “this is what I want,” we still have to abide by the wants of others after receiving the admissions status a scholarship or a job; it is expected to receive exceptional grades or strictly obey regulations at the workplace in the time frame set for the worker. There is absolutely no freedom. To some, this repetitiveness of pleasing others brings comfort and happiness to them. Meanwhile, others absolutely loathe this habit. Regardless, it is a fashion done in means of survival for not only themselves, but for a group of people.

It resembles prostitution in a way. It could even count as a contemporary form.

Only, here, people are not fully vulnerable. The vulnerability only comes when begging for a human right, an education. In essence, prostitutes are requesting money for the essential human right, which is life.

I know for a fact that the self, even the body, feels overused and overworked after rejection or by enacting in the physical labor they were granted to participate in.

In contrast, this modern activity has people applying and pleasuring others wants as a volunteer. This way of existing is actually accumulating in abundance. Opportunities are readily and vastly available that require weeks, months, up to two years of commitment. Leaving people to be taken advantage of for unpaid labor that only meets the needs of the requester.

A requester can simply announce “provides experience” to intrigue the applicant, fooling the other to acquire as much experience for a better opportunity. In reality, "experience" will not pay for the increase in food price, rent or for a visit to the emergency room.

How does one’s voice have the power to critique and ostracize a profession that is probably better off economically, has fewer requirements, is more natural, and where one does not have to be hypocritical about their experience? We already label someone a prostitute without knowing their actual history, for expressing their sexuality, or not knowing their true profession. We live ignorantly avoiding historical backgrounds of broad occupations, such as a sex worker and its benefits.

Meanwhile, our western world and our way of working and educating exist on a massive erasure of people and their stories. Is that something to be proud of, as we prolong this maltreatment on our children for the remaining of our time on Earth? Our level of superiority is monstrous and a kidnapping of the soul.