Sometimes it seems that we all follow the same path. In the case of a college student, the path is always the same: Study, get the best grades you can, graduate after four years, go to graduate school, study more, get better grades, graduate, get a job (start small), do your best, make more money, get a bigger job, make more money, retire, and have kids/get married along the way (hopefully the other way around). But that doesn’t seem exciting enough for me. I understand that’s the best way to get a good job and make enough money for your family and to retire on. I understand that there’s no easy way out of it. But I want to get some fun out of it! I don’t want to follow the same path everybody else does. I think that’s too boring. I want to have lots of great and unique experiences. Yeah, I want to finish my education and have a successful job, but I really hope it comes to me in a exceptional and unique way. I hope one day I have a chance to make a decision; a decision that will lead my life down a path of adventure and enjoyment. I hope I don’t follow the cliché paths people always follow; I want to make my own way. I want it to be full of experiences and memories that I can tell stories about to my grandkids about when I’m old. But even then when I’m old I don’t want to follow the same path that most old people take either. I don’t want to sit at home watching novellas; I want to be the grandpa that skydives and kite-surfs. I want to be the granddad that takes shots with his grandkids when they’re 16 and get them sick to teach them why you don’t abuse alcohol. I hope I take my own unique way through life. I want to take a more interesting way through it. It may be harder to find, but man will I have some interesting stories to tell between shots!Two roads diverged in a wood
And I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference – Robert Frost
I love that poem but I think each person does make life there own. You can be different but still do some of the same things that other people do. No two people are the same...
ReplyDeleteI agree with you completely! I always worry that the path that I'm taking is a boring one, which explains why I have already switched my major. I want those cool exciting stories too!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you a 100%. I love how you totally point out the typical perfect life even though it's not. I agree that to have fun you have to make your own life and venture out.
ReplyDeleteI have always enjoyed Frost’s poems. And I really like your take on making your life unique. I can’t wait to be able to share some crazy stories with my kids and grandkids. Life is definitely what you make it!
ReplyDeleteI love Robert Frost's poem and I think that every college student chooses their own path to take. College is suppose to be an experience, not just work and tests. Every single student has a different path and it is the one less traveled.
ReplyDeleteI guess life's what you make it and you are the one who decides what to do and when to do it. Following an "already set" path might not always be the best thing to do...
ReplyDeleteI pretty much agree with everything in this post. Who wants to be the same? Not me! Haha, but you are totally right on this. Show those grandkids that you are a tank!
ReplyDeleteI really like your whole blog and it is really refreshing to see that someone actually enjoys life for what it is and makes the best out of it.
ReplyDeleteYou pretty much said it all, and spoke for most college students who have high aspirations to do something with their life. Sometimes I feel like I am in boarding school, and have to follow a specific routine, but.. College opens up a new doorway for us to do whatever we want!!
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