One of my favorite quotes of all time is "What we do in life echoes in eternity". I've always told myself dream big but live bigger. I was reading some old blog post of mine and I stumbled across a comment that said "let's make history Josh". Then I thought, in my twenty years of life, what do I have to show for. I've been living such a scripted life. Living to the rules of society quietly attended school. Quietly attended a church I was told to go to and followed a religion I was told to believe. Quietly participating in various sports and activities that society told me to do. The grasp of our culture and world is so strong that it indirectly writes our lives for us. How do we really know what we love and enjoy if we were predetermined to do certain things and live in certain societies where rules and regulations rule our lives? First there was grade school. I was told to do well so I can go to middle school. Then there was middle school. I was told to do well so I can go to high school. Then there was high school. I was told to do well so I can go to college. And now I'm in college. And now I'm starting to realize that I wasted my life listening to people telling me to work hard to get to the next level. I realized the hidden message of education is that it is sort of a guide line to help us figure out what we love to do. However, I've been so blinded by trying to get to the next level of education I don't know what I want to do and I don't know what I love to do. So me being very successful in school actually boils down to no success at all because I'm lying in my bed at 6 in the morning thinking "what do I really love". If I grew up somewhere else, would I be the same Josh? If I knew different people would I have the same personality. Do my actions and character really display who I really am or does it simply display what I've been through? I'm going to break the heights of this society and conquer the grasp that is has on me. I want to know what I love to do not what people tell me to love. Going to make history, be back later.
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