End of the School Year Thoughts
Education is maybe the best gift you can give yourself in life. So many people go to school & just blindly take in material & spit it out without actually analyzing it. The point of an education is to evaluate & reevaluate yourself & what you believe. If you can’t grow through the process, you are wasting a valuable opportunity.
Before I went back to college, there were a few people that said I could or never would do it. I didn’t have the drive to succeed? I guess I can understand it in a way, but where in anything in my life did I ever fall short of going far beyond expectations. To be honest, I had no idea what the hell I wanted to do with my life. In the mean time I worked my ass off & was promoted extremely quickly, essentially earned an associates degree, & bought a lot of things I could have never dreamed of owning. That’s pretty bad for someone that had no idea, at all, what they were going to do with their life.
Now I have figured it out, for the most part. If you set a definite path in life, you will miss ton of opportunities, but I do know what orientation I would like to take. You can never count anything out though. My opportunity presented at St. Norbert is one a lot of people would kill for. I thank God every day for it. Now that I know what I want to do, there isn’t very much in my way. I would actually like to thank the people that said I would never accomplish any of this. To the few of you, & you know who you are, thanks. You are the same people that are mired in mediocrity, mediocrity in life, personal relationships, & a future. There is a great lesson history teaches, easy short term solutions are always trumped by long term creams. Impatience destroys the weak.
Hopefully I will have my associates by the end of the year (One final project to go & a couple transfer credits.), that is a little out of my hands. I will get it though. I will have my SNC degree in 2 years. When I decide to do something, I do it. I accomplish things on my terms, when I want to. Control is an illusion, nobody can 100% control their lives, but you can have an effect on the outcomes that affect you. To think fate or destiny controls all shows an external locus of control that allows a person to assume no responsibility for there actions.
The best thing I have realized this year is just how genius my parents are. They have let me live life the way I have wanted. Not necessarily agreeing with all my decisions, but staying out of them until giving me guidance when I need it & ask for it. It has given me the chance to find what I want to do. I was never going to be one of those people that went to trade school for 6 months out of high school & magically had a career I was going to be stuck in the rest of my life with no other options. That’s how people end up in paper mills. The path of least resistance may get you somewhere easy, but where is it getting you? Did anyone honestly think I was just wasting my money away on school (Maybe the Pig’s)? I was biding time until I found something I knew I could be passionate about.
Random entry, I know. Moral of this entry? You know that little feeling you have in the pit of your stomach that you always want to follow? That little piece of doubt about your direction, who surrounds you, situations you are in? Think about it once in a while. I like to think it’s there for a reason.
Peace…
