I find a lot of things in my life meaningless. Homework, video games, watching TV, etc. These are mindless activities that I either use to relieve stress or to further my goals. It is in my personal goals that I find meaning. My goal is to get to college and learn, really learn. Not rote memorization, although I suppose that is a type of learning. Not doing things for a grade that will affect the rest of my life (unless I go to grad school), but learning things that I want to learn. That's part of the reason that I have the list of colleges that I have. They all have very flexible curriculum requirements so that my one activity I find meaning in can be reached sooner rather than later.
Beyond that, I have taken the risky path of choosing an academic path that may not lead to a stable job. I didn't go for engineering or pharmacy, or something solid and well known. I found that my interests led me towards Anthopology and thats where I plan to follow. While people may find meaning in those other occupations, they don't interest me, and I don't enjoy them. I don't believe there is much meaning in a life without a little bit of happiness, no matter how absurd that happiness may be,
I commend your bravery in following your heart and not the standard, career-oriented college plan. I hope that you can continue through life without letting people compromise your values and make you distant from those things you hold dear.
ReplyDeleteI think we all have frustrations at some point about the seemingly pointlessness of things that we are required to do in order to "get to the next level" in life. It leads us to question why we sometimes do things that we find meaningless. Because we think that the majority believes in something meaningless, while in actuality we all realize the pointlessness of it and are just afraid to break the social taboo? I think it is really great that you have decided to do the latter.
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