What am I Doing with My Life? Seriously....?
It's eight days until Summer Break for us students at the University of Pittsburgh! One would assume I would have my nose buried a book or notes of some sort from now until the minute I sat down for my first exam. But no. I probably did THE most pointless thing I've done in over 7 years. I finally found out how many licks it takes to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop.
I accomplished one of those childhood goals we set for ourselves when sitting on a swing set on a summer's day. It turns out that it took me 987 licks to get full a 360 degree tootsie roll center uncovered. Do I regret the time I spent on this meaningless and random task? No. Absolutely not. For the time it took me to get to the center of this lollipop, I didn't have a care in the world and I was totally relaxed. It made me realize I miss the simpler days of joking around with friends or your biggest worry was missing the Rocko's Modern Life Marathon on Nickelodeon that afternoon. We all want to have a simple, happy life but we have to look forward to see it. Looking into the past won't help you ever achieve any of your goals.
As I looked at my Tootsie Pop wrapper with satisfaction, I saw that I had received an Indian shooting at a star on the it. Has anyone else ever heard the story that if you turn it into where you bought the lollipop you get one free? Well, I looked it up:
http://www.snopes.com/business/redeem/tootsie.asp
I accomplished one of those childhood goals we set for ourselves when sitting on a swing set on a summer's day. It turns out that it took me 987 licks to get full a 360 degree tootsie roll center uncovered. Do I regret the time I spent on this meaningless and random task? No. Absolutely not. For the time it took me to get to the center of this lollipop, I didn't have a care in the world and I was totally relaxed. It made me realize I miss the simpler days of joking around with friends or your biggest worry was missing the Rocko's Modern Life Marathon on Nickelodeon that afternoon. We all want to have a simple, happy life but we have to look forward to see it. Looking into the past won't help you ever achieve any of your goals.
As I looked at my Tootsie Pop wrapper with satisfaction, I saw that I had received an Indian shooting at a star on the it. Has anyone else ever heard the story that if you turn it into where you bought the lollipop you get one free? Well, I looked it up:
http://www.snopes.com/business/redeem/tootsie.asp