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I've been thinking a lot lately about the next step and what that might be for everybody around me. Maybe this is coming from the fact that I'm leaving in less than a month (where did the summer go?) from now, and just now realizing that piece of reality. But it feels like this year will change a lot, at least for me. I think that certain things will be revealed, a lot of which I probably don't even know about yet. It's always tricky going into the unknown.
Yesterday, I was cleaning out my box of history...aka, memorabilia from the past...well, probably ten years, maybe more. I came across this letter from my uncle. If you don't believe in people changing, you need to meet this man. He went from basically failing out of high school to being chief resident at Mass General Hospital (in conjunction with Harvard). He's also one of the most philosophically minded people that I've ever met.
So...the letter...what he said was that one shouldn't think of their life in terms of right or wrong, good or bad. Rather, you should think of your life in terms of obscuring or disclosing. I'll give you an example. If I hadn't been deferred from being an R.A. (something that I really wanted to do in college) I would've never gone to Spain, had that experience change my life and be going back again now. I've always had a very clear picture of where I wanted my life to go eventually, and while I'm somewhat close to where I thought I might end up, the road has meandered into unexpected places.
As of right now, I'm trying not to think of a picture for the next five years. I know how next year will be, but after that I could pretty much fall off the edge of the earth for all I know. And I wouldn't care, because I wouldn't be deviating from the plan, or lack of a plan.
I guess that I'm just expecting the next ten months to disclose something, something that I don't even know is there yet.
Yesterday, I was cleaning out my box of history...aka, memorabilia from the past...well, probably ten years, maybe more. I came across this letter from my uncle. If you don't believe in people changing, you need to meet this man. He went from basically failing out of high school to being chief resident at Mass General Hospital (in conjunction with Harvard). He's also one of the most philosophically minded people that I've ever met.
So...the letter...what he said was that one shouldn't think of their life in terms of right or wrong, good or bad. Rather, you should think of your life in terms of obscuring or disclosing. I'll give you an example. If I hadn't been deferred from being an R.A. (something that I really wanted to do in college) I would've never gone to Spain, had that experience change my life and be going back again now. I've always had a very clear picture of where I wanted my life to go eventually, and while I'm somewhat close to where I thought I might end up, the road has meandered into unexpected places.
As of right now, I'm trying not to think of a picture for the next five years. I know how next year will be, but after that I could pretty much fall off the edge of the earth for all I know. And I wouldn't care, because I wouldn't be deviating from the plan, or lack of a plan.
I guess that I'm just expecting the next ten months to disclose something, something that I don't even know is there yet.