Playing Hooky! an Expression of Free Will (?!)

OK. Fess up. Almost everyone has at some time skipped school.

When I was in high school I used to skip school one time each semester. I would go to a nearby museum and explore it and the grounds. The museum was really cool and old fashioned -very different from museums now. The new ones all look alike to me and show the same stuff. This one was filled with all sorts of things local people had donated and it had a room at the top of the one building set up as if it were the captain's room on a ship complete with a telescope! I would go to that room, look out over the river and pretend I was one of the first explorers.

There was something fun about skipping out. It felt liberating. I had to be in high school and learn because it was the law. But, when I skipped out, I was learning because I wanted to! And, if I went bowling or did something else it still felt great because I did it of my own free will. Plus, doing something different from everyone else also felt neat. It gave the illusion of freedom.

Did you ever skip out? If so, why? What did you do? Do you think everyone should skip out at least once in their life?

Did you ever watch Ferris Beuller's Day Off? If not, I recommend it - the best school skipping movie ever!