sociology, cockroaches, humans...?!?!

11:30 A.M, Sociology Class

A cockroach, not the ones found in Iran but the small fragile ones, is running around the professor’s desk as he is talking about Weber’s “Spirit of Capitalism”. I’m listening to him and writing down notes as my eyes follow him around the room, until they catch the cockroach running around trying to find an escape from the endless maze he was trapped in. It is then that I lose my concentration and try to follow the roach around and see what he is going to do. Now who would stare at a cockroach during sociology class?!?! Well, it appears I’m not the only one, the girl to my left is also looking at him and giggling. Now I try to jump back into the professor’s lecture, but it seems the cockroach’s endless search for a way out is more interesting than the professor’s lecture on how puritans' beliefs relate to capitalism. The roach disappears behind the desk and I try to catch up with the lecture. Few minutes pass, the roach comes back still searching. However, this time he is accompanied by a smaller roach! Both looking for an escape, but are too dumb to crawl down the desk instead of going around it. Then the professor’s eye catches them, he also loses concentration then throws one of the roaches off the desk freeing him from the maze. The other one hides behind the desk hiding from his chance of getting freed, and continues to make the same mistakes over and over again. I am too tired to follow the other one...



Do some of us need to be pushed off our wrong paths to stop committing the same mistakes again and again? Is there a sociology professor for each one of us out there so he could throw us back to where we should be?


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