"One thing that strikes me is that I know people who say to me, “Oh, I wouldn’t know what to do with my time if I had a month off.” And I think “What are you talking about? Just use your time.” I never feel that if the structure in my life was lost, what am I going to do? I don’t feel lost. My ego doesn’t fall apart in chaos if I don’t have a schedule. I just live. I make my time what I want it to be. I never feel like, “Oh, my God, what would I do without structure imposed upon me from the outside?” So many people I work with talk like that. Even about my job: in my job, we’re alone most of the day, most of the time. I’m a social worker in a hospital setting and we’re on our own to make our own schedules and get our work done. A lot of people come here and don’t know how to do that. They say, “Well, I don’t know how to structure. This day is too unstructured for me. I won’t get my work done because I don’t know how to balance my day to get it done.” And that I can’t fathom. That never happens to me. I wonder how I’m going to get my work done, but I appreciate having the freedom to organize my day the way I want to."
Sudbury Valley School graduate (I have an interview at an SVS in Toronto this week, wish me luck!)
