We are the here and now generation, we are do-ers, thinkers, achievers, and the generation that baffles all the ones before us. We are the ones who question everything and try anything. We want what we want when we want it. We want Wifi everywhere we go, we order the newest iPhone before it's even released, we get irritated when we are put on hold or made to sit for more than 10 minutes at a doctors office.
We spend so much of our time waiting for things to happen and doing everything we think we should be doing.
All my life I've been told to go to college by relatives, friends, teachers, everyone! So, I did. Here I am finishing up my college career and on schedule to graduate in December. Yet, I find that while I'm sitting in these mundane classes that my University insist that I "need" in order to graduate, I think about what I really want.- To travel, fall in love, make money and be successful.
Why?
....because that's what everyone tells you to do, make a name for yourself, experience new things, and be happy.
How can one be happy if they can't financially support themselves?
They honestly can't, so they work jobs they hate to justify their expensive education and put themselves in situations like a three hour science class to achieve the degree that is supposed to open the flood gates to success.
But what about all the money they owe the bank for that expensive piece of paper?
This is where those hopeful college grads who weren't blessed with a trust fund or a full-scholarship find themselves sitting at a job they don't want in order to make money that doesn't support their loan payments, rent, groceries, car payments, and social life. This is where dreams of traveling the world and trying new things turn to ashes we call "The Real World".
Now, here I am on the brink of graduation and all I can think about - or I should say panic about, is the fact that I am 23 years old and I haven't done half the things I would've liked to do by now. Adult life is creeping up on me and I'm about to be working 40+ hour weeks for the rest of my life. When the hell am I going to be able to backpack Europe or move to Australia and take surfing lessons? There's no more 5 week Christmas breaks to drink on a Tuesday night in a basement with your best friends or spring breaks to get a tan in the winter or ANY breaks!
At the young age of 23, we are asked to be adults and put our college antics behind us and our degrees to work. We are told to make sacrifices and deal with the realities of life. I agree with this but I also think all the people who say that are echoing life lectures they heard from the generation before them and are now echoing it onto us. We are a new breed and should be allowed to explore the world around us, take a year off of school, really learn who we are because that is where real personal growth comes from. Not from a textbook. I also think it's so screwed up that the people who actually do this are looked at as "under achievers", people who are "going to do nothing with their lives" rather than admiring their ability to be like salmon and swim upstream which is so much harder than going with what is "socially acceptable" by society's standards.
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
-William G.T. Shedd
~LD
We spend so much of our time waiting for things to happen and doing everything we think we should be doing.
All my life I've been told to go to college by relatives, friends, teachers, everyone! So, I did. Here I am finishing up my college career and on schedule to graduate in December. Yet, I find that while I'm sitting in these mundane classes that my University insist that I "need" in order to graduate, I think about what I really want.- To travel, fall in love, make money and be successful.
Why?
....because that's what everyone tells you to do, make a name for yourself, experience new things, and be happy.
How can one be happy if they can't financially support themselves?
They honestly can't, so they work jobs they hate to justify their expensive education and put themselves in situations like a three hour science class to achieve the degree that is supposed to open the flood gates to success.
But what about all the money they owe the bank for that expensive piece of paper?
This is where those hopeful college grads who weren't blessed with a trust fund or a full-scholarship find themselves sitting at a job they don't want in order to make money that doesn't support their loan payments, rent, groceries, car payments, and social life. This is where dreams of traveling the world and trying new things turn to ashes we call "The Real World".
Now, here I am on the brink of graduation and all I can think about - or I should say panic about, is the fact that I am 23 years old and I haven't done half the things I would've liked to do by now. Adult life is creeping up on me and I'm about to be working 40+ hour weeks for the rest of my life. When the hell am I going to be able to backpack Europe or move to Australia and take surfing lessons? There's no more 5 week Christmas breaks to drink on a Tuesday night in a basement with your best friends or spring breaks to get a tan in the winter or ANY breaks!
At the young age of 23, we are asked to be adults and put our college antics behind us and our degrees to work. We are told to make sacrifices and deal with the realities of life. I agree with this but I also think all the people who say that are echoing life lectures they heard from the generation before them and are now echoing it onto us. We are a new breed and should be allowed to explore the world around us, take a year off of school, really learn who we are because that is where real personal growth comes from. Not from a textbook. I also think it's so screwed up that the people who actually do this are looked at as "under achievers", people who are "going to do nothing with their lives" rather than admiring their ability to be like salmon and swim upstream which is so much harder than going with what is "socially acceptable" by society's standards.
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
-William G.T. Shedd
~LD