Most people know that education is their hope and their children's hope for a better life. Not that everyone has to go to college, but we all need to learn and grow to survive and thrive.
Education is not a guarantee of achieving the "good life," it is a path to understanding how to enjoy life. The more you learn, the more you understand. The more you understand, the better you can cope with whatever comes your way.
Sarah will never be a happy person because she refuses to learn. She will always see life through a lens of self-interest and limitations, envy and deceit, bitterness and hate. She refuses to embrace education on any level.
That is not only sad, it is tragic because her willful ignorance and jealousy of those who have embraced the magic and joy of learning affects us all. Her self-hate is so strong that she wants to destroy everyone and everything around her.
She first has to learn to understand herself - why she is driven to hate, so entwined in negativity, and so unwilling to let go of both. She is pulling that darkness tighter around her in hopes of becoming something more powerful, but she is strangling her own potential. She will go down in history as a very sad, angry, pitiful woman who wanted to bring down everyone else to her level. She is sinking in the mire of nasty and has only her own arrogance and desperation to blame.
Those of us who want something better refuse to join her. Our ranks are growing as she sinks deeper. Only she can help herself. No one around her seems to give a damn with good reason. They don't really want to become what she is. Who in their right mind would?
