Undereducated

This piece was originally posted on Substack on May 21, 2023.

In therapy one time, I mostly went back over all the useless things that cloud my memory instead of the useful things I could have been learning instead.

I know countless biblical references, but can’t name all the states of my own country, much less identify much of world geography at all.

I remember once I was visiting our pastor’s family of a presbyterian church, someone threw a blow-up globe at me and said “Find…Antarctica!”

I at once realize that this was a game she was used to playing in her own homeschool experience.

I couldn’t find it.

I didn’t know where fucking Antarctica was at the age of 11 or 12.

She was surprised, having thought it was an easy test, and honestly, it was.

I am ashamed when I think about how little I know. I am ashamed when I think about how slowly I must go now.