What if the rat race didn’t begin the day you entered the workforce, but the moment you first sat in a classroom?

Modern education was built to shape obedience, not imagination, compliance not consciousness. The school bell becomes the office deadline, the grades become performance evaluations, and the competitive mindset becomes a lifelong chase for validation. Without realizing it, many grow into adults who follow rules they never chose and pursue goals that were never their own.

Through the insights of thinkers like Foucault, Jung, and Viktor Frankl, this reflection uncovers how fear, routine, and distraction condition the mind to stay small. The system teaches you to fit in, not to wake up. But the moment you become aware of this conditioning, the structure begins to loosen.

This is your invitation to unlearn, to reclaim your time, and to reconnect with the deeper purpose that was buried beneath deadlines, pressure, and expectations.
The rat race doesn’t end when you win, it ends when you refuse to run.