R U Feelin the deeper Meaning
The album the college drop-out by Kanye West has become my ultimate motivational tool. In my course of growth and development, I have found in my family majority of our males haven’t even made completed highschool. With the opportunity to advance my education; I am over eager to contribute to the survival of my bloodline in this fast growing world. With so much in common between the album and I, I have particulary been attracted to the notion that understanding self-worth is as important as realizing what I am capable of. Not realizing the college drop out rate was as high as it is amongst african american students, further contributed to my intrigue. I to have fallen short to materialistic acquiring and uneeded wants. I to have wasted much valuable time overendulging myself in unregarding decisions of my future, that were just undisciplined for my current status; which is unfitting. Growing mentally and deminishing physically, developing physically, yet lacking control. Wisdom I have obtained. Enlightenment through such peers as Mr. West and his current life endeavors has awakened the inner man within myself. Being of “book smarts” , common sense, and “street smarts” yet lacking real world experience; I was set out blindly by ambition to achieve more. Unknowingly of what it was I wanted to acquire so badly except the basic of all desires. A home of my own to call my own, a family (God willing), and financial stability. A worry free life of happiness. Only after many short comings did I realize what I needed. That is until someone of the same background approached this un-isolated phenomena that is currently being played out throughout the boundaries of the social class in which I currently live.
Through his motivational lyrics such as: We don’t care, Graduation, and School Spirit; he offers deliverance and peace to accepting one’s fate when making choices that are none but your own.
I can understand the struggle of being pressured to maintain a life, create goals for a life, and trying to live one already underway. Only through careful listening and deciphering of the true content characterized by “ghetto living”; can one draw out the meaning and overlook the misconception.
In a degree of effort we all have faced the pressure of “living out someone else’s dream. Many of us surcome and given. Most are fighting to maintain their individuallity. I myself have overlived many expectations of others by my own techniques of survival. One of which is to look to others who share my journey in this struggle to overcome statistics. Who create these statistics anyway. Given that if things would change, so would these statistics. This is the higher ecolon of the struggle at hand. No longer being the perverbial lab rat, but the administrator of the experiment. Taking heed to guidance from all aspects of life, yet unyeilding to trust anyone outside the institutional surroundings of education; I find my calling. Only have I found some trust in educational institutions to pursue my newly acquired focus. Unlike many instances of meeting throughout everyday life. A wake up call to grab ahold of what remains of my own self (inner-being as well as outter resemblance), and to mold and use this to succeed in that which I have set out to do. Rebuilding that which others have demolished in their own quest to survive.
Why should I spend an entire life entrapped within a socialistic surrounding that defeats my ambition and ability to grow. Whether I learn fast or am able to adapt, I should be free to place myself where I am at the most use for myself and society as well. This album has much to give to the person who has lost their voice of reasoning amongst the maintenance of a government in which we can only see as the “being of whom entraps us”.