No such thing

Hey, are any of you familiar with the John Mayer song, "No such thing"?

I listened to it today.. here's a little snippet of his lyric...

They love to tell you stay inside the lines
But somethings better on the other side
...
I just found out there's no such thing as the real world
Just a lie you've got to rise above

Something about that is pretty appealing to me--maybe because I was emailing the "enrichment" teacher to find out why my kid isn't in the latest class for the top-notchers.. but maybe also because I'm starting to get a little annoyed at the "oh, but they've gotta learn to tie their tie and color inside the lines" thing.

Oh, I suppose I'm crazy, and the reality of the situation is something along the lines of "You've just got to learn that, when you grow up, this is the way things work, and blahblahblah..." Or, possibly, the reality of the situation is that I've never grown up! But I'm inclined to go along with Mr. Mayer here.. "there's no such thing as the real world"...

I think, even, that I can bend this to fit in with my faith. Does this jive with the freedom brought by grace, and the constant directive toward being childlike? I don't know about the second, but definitely the first. I know that my faith frees me to approach life in a ridiculous fashion, unencumbered by the fear of failure, the fear of derision, the fear of it "going on my permanent record." It frees me from making choices because they are "normal," and from determining my own worth based on the assesments of others.

If the real world is about playing it safe, then, in light of what I know of grace, I'm just gonna move "real world" over into the category of "No Such Thing". Thanks.