My Heart Will Go On
So I was studying feverishly for my Calculus II midterm when I hear the sound of a whistle...not a human whistle, but the thing you blow into. I felt like I was a corpse floating in the icy Atlantic waters right after the Titanic sunk (in under two hours, mind you); random people placed in a large opening with huge obstructions (shelves are similar to faulty rescue boats or dead people or even parts of the ship herself in my analogy) in the middle. They were technically saying that the library was closing; however, I felt as if I was being told to whistle back if I, myself, was alive and needed to be rescued. WTF.
I have been thinking a lot about attaining what you set out to attain. For instance, we all go to college to eventually get some sort of degree and therefore go into the realm of work with an "education" or sorts...depending on what kind of education your particular school deems fit to offer you. So, we go and are bombarded with work to show that we have enough stamina to make it through numerous years of requirements and deadlines. Everyone--at some point--chooses the particular path or field of study that they enjoy the most or find most fitting for them. Some people, moreover, choose what they specifically want to accomplish or do in the world after college. This is my question: where is the threshold between accepting something life has to offer you and denying or attempting to move beyond that in life to accomplish a greater goal?
I am inclined to believe--as I have been conditioned into thinking--that everyone should work hard and set goals and take nothing but fulfilling all of those goals set in one's life. However, I'm not naive to the fact that so many people in this world are stuck in dead-end jobs or ones that seem to be completely different than what they had envisioned years and years ago. This is not to say that these people are not necessarily happy; to each their own in this respect. But if a person has an ultimate vision of what they wish to achieve in life, how many "curve balls" will life throw at them? Or, even better, what kind of personal will-power will one need to exercise in order to achieve exactly what they had wished to achieve?
I have been thinking a lot about attaining what you set out to attain. For instance, we all go to college to eventually get some sort of degree and therefore go into the realm of work with an "education" or sorts...depending on what kind of education your particular school deems fit to offer you. So, we go and are bombarded with work to show that we have enough stamina to make it through numerous years of requirements and deadlines. Everyone--at some point--chooses the particular path or field of study that they enjoy the most or find most fitting for them. Some people, moreover, choose what they specifically want to accomplish or do in the world after college. This is my question: where is the threshold between accepting something life has to offer you and denying or attempting to move beyond that in life to accomplish a greater goal?
I am inclined to believe--as I have been conditioned into thinking--that everyone should work hard and set goals and take nothing but fulfilling all of those goals set in one's life. However, I'm not naive to the fact that so many people in this world are stuck in dead-end jobs or ones that seem to be completely different than what they had envisioned years and years ago. This is not to say that these people are not necessarily happy; to each their own in this respect. But if a person has an ultimate vision of what they wish to achieve in life, how many "curve balls" will life throw at them? Or, even better, what kind of personal will-power will one need to exercise in order to achieve exactly what they had wished to achieve?