I always get a little tongue-tied when people generally ask me that question. I am aware that it's really a surprise because it just doesn't suit me and my capacity at all. I don't know which best reason to tell them because there are quite a few. My mind just gets overwhelmed and goes blank after a few seconds when I'm confronted with it. So here I am, in bed, couldn't sleep when I'm trying to, wrote the reasons why. There may be some other reasons that my brain blanked out again and made me not write them down, but here are the ones that managed to come through:
1. To develop my social skills, which I don't have. (I already graduated and I still don't have them. Lol)
2. A lighter load on the brain since I couldn't take in any complicated stuff at the moment.
3. I thought that if I could finish this first, then I'll proceed to another scientific course.
4. I'm a lazy shit and I want to finish school in the shortest possible time.
5. It's the nearest college within the proximity. I don't really like riding a lot or for a long period of time.
6. I didn't want to go to the same colleges that my siblings went to.
7. I do the most unpredictable shit and this is one of them. Trust me, I'm also surprised.
8. So I would learn how to cook.
9. I already know a lot of stuff except hospitality stuff. I thought that if I take this up, then I would truly be the "Ace" (not Jack) of all Trades.
10. I figured I'd like the challenge of taking up something I'm not really interested in.
11. I already know how to do the stuff. Why should I take a course related to it? I should take up something that I don't really know how to do.
12. I thought that if I took a course with the thing I love and I'm really good at, I would lose the interest and would hate what I used to love doing. I mean, I love learning the core and technical aspects, the origins, and the "whys" of everything, but there was this story of a great artist, graduated high school, took up fine arts. Once classes started, the professor taught them the basics. "You should do it like this. The rules are that. What are you doing? That's not how you do it!" Everything he knew about art was wrong. When he tried to draw, he got conscious of all the new stuff the teacher taught him. Then, he progressively lost bits of his talents until he couldn't draw anymore. In the end, he shifted to another course. Lost his passion with art.
I feel like working makes you hate what you are doing. Being forced to do what you love to do makes it lose its true meaning, makes you forget why you started doing it in the first place.
13. I hate myself. I chose this course to punish my future and future self in the long run.
14. I want to see how people would react when someone doesn't do what they expect them to do
15. I just wanted to try something new. I got tired of the same stuff I've been doing.
16. Baking and cooking is an art and a science experiment. You gather up all the chemicals or art materials needed (in lay man's term, the ingredients): baking soda, food coloring, flour, etc. You shape them or mix them up together, and form something new. The music of the sizzling meat on the frying pan, combined with the rhythms of the chopping board, the noise of the yelling of orders, a rowdy concert in the kitchen.
(I'm just trying to be a pretentious poet here. Lol)
17. I don't want to be weak in some other aspects in my life. In this case, cleaning, cooking, interacting with people, and other basic stuff that people would already know how to do without studying the course. This is probably the same with number 9 and I'm just repeating it now. Does this still count?
18. All courses are good courses. This one isn't really a bad choice.
19. I thought that maybe I managed to learn to love this course that I hate. A few semesters in, I did think it's not that bad. I did love it at one point. I'd rather do this, than manage to hate a course that I used to love at the beginning.
20. I chose this course as a statement for the people out there who are afraid of people's expectations of them, to tell them that it is your choice and what people expect from you should not be a major factor in your decisions.
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