People talk about work too much. Pay attention next time you become re-acquainted with someone and see where the conversation goes. It's all about work.
You'll hear the question “So, what do you do?” from one party or the other. That may just be the easiest way to break the ice, outside of a Georgia summer day.
Once we graduate from high school, it's no longer our friends, activities or clothes that give us identity, but our jobs. We are no longer band geeks, skaters, preps or jocks. Instead, we slowly become bankers, pizza guys, cashiers, clerks, managers or even students, like me.
The prospect of “the rest of my life” is really quite daunting to me. For the last who-knows-how-long, people have been asking me what I'm going to do with it. I really don't like answering that question.
Thinking that my whole life is going to be defined by some job is depressing. Jobs suck. I can't wait until I'm suddenly rich and don't have to work for the rest of my life. Isn't that the American dream?
What I really want, though, is a career where I feel free. Where I can do what only I can do.
Something that doesn't make me feel bogged down by that “pay the bills” feeling.
Don't get me wrong, I have all the respect in the world for all of the people that do what they have to do to take care of themselves and their own.
John Lennon himself said, “a working class hero's something to be.”
Call me a dreamer, but I have just recently realized that I have this huge opportunity to be something else.
The question I'd like to ask is, “Why am I different from anybody else?” Why shouldn't every single person feel like they can dream and then start moving towards that dream?
I realize that it's not going to just happen like magic, but it can happen all the same. For me or for anybody. Especially for those of us in this college. It's exactly what we're here for, isn't it?
Just take a step back for a second. Step back from your class load, job or the time in between when you just have to recover.
Step back and just think, what do you want to do?
