...and down we dive, to score the rainbow's pot of gold
Everyone has their moments, but I can't help but feel completely and utterly blessed for having come here. Just knowing of the opportunities and uniques experiences that await, I wonder how I could be so lucky. Honestly, sometimes I catch myself smiling for no reason-- when I'm walking around the terazzo, or coming back from engineering class...I figure I'm just, happy? Funny how so much contentment can be found in such a busy atmosphere.
No place is perfect (Utopia). There are people that get things they don't deserve, and most of the time you will have worked harder than them for half the reward. For someone like me, an idealist to the extreme, getting to know the "real world" is sometimes disappointing,considering all the pretty "fake" people out there. However, again, me being the idealist, I think I've grasped the higher ideals that I've been taught to strive towards. I can't let others ruin what's still real to me, the things I so ardently, still, believe in.
They said, "by the end of this, you'll realize that you have accomplished more than you ever thought you could. Work hard now, suffer the pain now, and live like champions forever." Yes, I'm quite aware that this all sounds cheesy. But that's a lot of the difference between those that get what they want and those that sit around and wait for something to hit them in the face. The ones that get what they want internalize the goals and values, they do their job for the "bigger" mission, not for the instant reward, or to avoid punishment. They do things because they actually believe in them.
Wild horses, struggling with those that are trying to tame them, struggling because they are stubborn, struggling because they think that their freedom is being stolen away from them. Soon they will calm, for they will have learned that they have not, in fact, lost any freedom, but gained more from the inner peace and grace demanded by their tamers.
I must sound ridiculously arrogant (and a little bit like an apostle), but I'll say it anyways. Why worry and be sad? why worry about what evils have been done to me? Rejoice! Rejoice in the knowledge that the life of your friend has been only enriched.
No place is perfect (Utopia). There are people that get things they don't deserve, and most of the time you will have worked harder than them for half the reward. For someone like me, an idealist to the extreme, getting to know the "real world" is sometimes disappointing,considering all the pretty "fake" people out there. However, again, me being the idealist, I think I've grasped the higher ideals that I've been taught to strive towards. I can't let others ruin what's still real to me, the things I so ardently, still, believe in.
They said, "by the end of this, you'll realize that you have accomplished more than you ever thought you could. Work hard now, suffer the pain now, and live like champions forever." Yes, I'm quite aware that this all sounds cheesy. But that's a lot of the difference between those that get what they want and those that sit around and wait for something to hit them in the face. The ones that get what they want internalize the goals and values, they do their job for the "bigger" mission, not for the instant reward, or to avoid punishment. They do things because they actually believe in them.
Wild horses, struggling with those that are trying to tame them, struggling because they are stubborn, struggling because they think that their freedom is being stolen away from them. Soon they will calm, for they will have learned that they have not, in fact, lost any freedom, but gained more from the inner peace and grace demanded by their tamers.
I must sound ridiculously arrogant (and a little bit like an apostle), but I'll say it anyways. Why worry and be sad? why worry about what evils have been done to me? Rejoice! Rejoice in the knowledge that the life of your friend has been only enriched.