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I have an idea...it may or may not work.
Since I've already invested so much time and money into being a music major, I must finish when I've started. It's not that I don't like cello anymore, but I want my studies and my life to be more meaningful. So here's the idea: I continue my music studies so I can finish that degree, but then since I will already have UPs taken care of, I can add on either a minor or possibly even another major since music will be finally done. I want to either do Nutrition, Health, maybe even English. Something to better my chances of being a successful volunteer in the Peace Corps, or even anything like it. I'll take comments from anybody who thinks this is either a good idea or a totally insane one.
I really think I could live a life of travel and helping others. Not forever, of course. Someday I do want to get married and have children but for now I want my life to be meaningful in a different kind of way. My only difficulty now is finding the strength and inspiration to finish out these last years as a music student. When I think about putting together a junior recital this year, it does nothing but fill me with fear... because how will I ever find the dedication again to do something like this? How can I pull all of my attention to something that I just don't want to really do?
I don't have high expectations for my life as a cellist, because I don't want it to be my LIFE. I want to play from time to time because I do love it, but I don't want to be one of those people where it consumes my entire reason for living. What I want to do is travel to Africa or Asia or South America, and sit in those orphanages with sick children who have nobody in the world. Live in a one-room hut for a year and only shower every 2 weeks because that's all the people can afford. See things I never thought could be possible.
So many of us are spoiled even if we don't realize it. Every day, I recognize more and more how spoiled my life has been for me. We may not all be on the level of Donald Trump or Bill Gates, but think of every little thing you have that makes your life easy. Even the simple fact that I have the luxury of showering every day, I am allowed to go to school and it's paid for, and I have choices in my life. Choices. Some people in this life do not get choices, and that, I think, is the greatest luxury of all. Refugees do not have choices. Orphans do not have choices. Some people in this life live only because that is the only thing they can do; they must survive. Some people in this life live for themselves and are not satisfied when things are not better...and better...and better. Think about it.
These are just a few of the reasons why I feel it is my duty, as a human being who has the capabilities and the choices, to help in those ways possible. I just can't imagine going through life and being so selfish as to think that something like this is a bad idea. Someday, I will find a way to make it across the seas and help those who need love, teaching, skills and more... more than I ever will.
Since I've already invested so much time and money into being a music major, I must finish when I've started. It's not that I don't like cello anymore, but I want my studies and my life to be more meaningful. So here's the idea: I continue my music studies so I can finish that degree, but then since I will already have UPs taken care of, I can add on either a minor or possibly even another major since music will be finally done. I want to either do Nutrition, Health, maybe even English. Something to better my chances of being a successful volunteer in the Peace Corps, or even anything like it. I'll take comments from anybody who thinks this is either a good idea or a totally insane one.
I really think I could live a life of travel and helping others. Not forever, of course. Someday I do want to get married and have children but for now I want my life to be meaningful in a different kind of way. My only difficulty now is finding the strength and inspiration to finish out these last years as a music student. When I think about putting together a junior recital this year, it does nothing but fill me with fear... because how will I ever find the dedication again to do something like this? How can I pull all of my attention to something that I just don't want to really do?
I don't have high expectations for my life as a cellist, because I don't want it to be my LIFE. I want to play from time to time because I do love it, but I don't want to be one of those people where it consumes my entire reason for living. What I want to do is travel to Africa or Asia or South America, and sit in those orphanages with sick children who have nobody in the world. Live in a one-room hut for a year and only shower every 2 weeks because that's all the people can afford. See things I never thought could be possible.
So many of us are spoiled even if we don't realize it. Every day, I recognize more and more how spoiled my life has been for me. We may not all be on the level of Donald Trump or Bill Gates, but think of every little thing you have that makes your life easy. Even the simple fact that I have the luxury of showering every day, I am allowed to go to school and it's paid for, and I have choices in my life. Choices. Some people in this life do not get choices, and that, I think, is the greatest luxury of all. Refugees do not have choices. Orphans do not have choices. Some people in this life live only because that is the only thing they can do; they must survive. Some people in this life live for themselves and are not satisfied when things are not better...and better...and better. Think about it.
These are just a few of the reasons why I feel it is my duty, as a human being who has the capabilities and the choices, to help in those ways possible. I just can't imagine going through life and being so selfish as to think that something like this is a bad idea. Someday, I will find a way to make it across the seas and help those who need love, teaching, skills and more... more than I ever will.