"The best things in life are free but you can give them to the birds and the bees I want money."
This is a lyric from a song from the 80's that I think is very applicable to the average college student dilemma. The best things in life are free. They will always be there to comfort you, to feed you and to hold you. The challenge I see myself facing is whether or not those free things are worth it. Of course the answer is yes. They will always be there because they love you, they care about you, and they want you to be happy. These things, or people, are there to comfort you and tell you everything is going to be okay. These are the good things.
The dilemma I'm referring to is the friends vs. school/now vs. later options we, as college students, face every day. The things you love to do are usually free and include your friends. These are the things that dreams are made of and that you want to spend most of your time on. The bad part is that you can't always do that because in the end, you want the money. That's what college is about. You may have heard it's about finding yourself or your soul mate or your path in life but it isn't. The really purpose of college is to send you away for four years and process you, teach you things you really don't need to learn for your career, and hope that after $110,000+ you'll have a piece of paper deeming you qualified to do some sort of task. Good and well knowing the whole time that they will retrain you and probably tell you to throw out everything you learned in college on the first day.
The challenges we face are in maintaining these free things or keeping them on the back burner while we work on making money. What is more important?
I'm sad to say that i've raised all of these questions without an answer. I have no idea which is more important. I like to say that the time I spend with my friends everyday is more important but I can't. I can't say that if I had a test tomorrow I would throw my books aside and hang out with my friends. So that proves that life is more important.
I know I go back and forth a lot on the subject of life being hard. I know I have to put my big girl panties on and deal with it and I know sometimes that that is hard. Sometimes I just don't feel like wearing pants at all and climbing into my bed all day and watching Greek. Those are the days that I, and I think you probably do too, that it is worth it. I know I've written several blogs on it being worth it and I keep promising myself it is. I know it is. I've felt it. I guess this is just me acknowledging that yes, sometimes, it is hard.
Sometimes you just want to be chased after when you stomp away and caught when you fall. Unfortunately, some of those times when you rely on that to happen you'll just keep running or fall flat on your face. There is no telling.
Frequently I tell my friends that I keep jumping off of this cliff waiting to fly because one of these days all of the trying and falling and all of the heartache and bellyaching over it will be worth it and I'll fly. I'll lift my feet off of the ground and soar into the air. That's what makes it worth it. You are what makes it worth it. The few that take the time to read my blog and even act like they understand are what makes it worth it.
Thank you.
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