paper.

I don't like paper.

it ruins the world in some ways.

for example, paper is driving me to go through school for 4 unreasonable years. I need to have a piece of paper stating that I'm able to complete all of the technical aspects of music for anybody to "take me seriously".
but who would take me seriously?
people with more paper.
not another degree, but money.

I'd rather be lying on my death bed remembering how satisfied I was with my life and my work, and thinking about where music took me other than through school, rather than lying on my death bed counting my paper alone with nothing real to show for it.