I really should renounce my status as a certified mindless drone

I have long insisted that we should all strive to evolve as individuals. For various reasons, I have not been following my own advice. This includes problems that I have with the response to change. As one of my many self-evaluations, I have decided to look into what kinds of changes that I really should make in my life. Unfortunately, obstacles will likely be too much for me to overcome.

This might be hard to believe, but I used to be a good student. I now refer to that period of my life as my mindless years. I eventually shifted towards mental development, which corresponded with a significant decline in my GPA.

When I was in school, I knew that my needs weren't being met. I also knew that the schooling process was detrimental to my mental health. In all honesty, I should have dropped out. Instead, I cowardly stayed put.

We are living in a highly discriminatory society. The primary reason that I stayed in school was because I knew that I knew that society would look down on me if I failed to acquire my high school diploma. Even though schooling was definitively detrimental to my mental health, I allowed our discriminatory society to bully me.

The benefits of being a high school graduate weren't as strong as I had anticipated. Yes, it allowed me to obtain jobs that I would have otherwise been prohibited from pursuing, but these jobs are all the same. That piece of paper established that I am nothing but a replaceable cog.

For the most part, I have accepted my role as a mindless drone. That's what my piece of paper says about me. Whenever I refer to myself as a high school graduate, I am portraying myself as a schooling-certified mindless drone.

I'm sorry, but that piece of paper doesn't represent who I really am. I'm better than that. I'm not just another certified mindless drone. I am an individual.

I can fix this. There is a part of me that would love to renounce my status as a graduate. The problem is how our intolerant society would treat me. Simply put, I just haven't been able to find the courage to do what's right.