Sorry for the lack of updates recently. I have been enjoying some quality R&R for the last month. Much deserved, but it has given me a lot of time to think about the state of things. While I have never been one for New Year’s resolutions, I have been thinking a lot about my college experiences and the things that it has taught me.
I am about to graduate. Which I could bore you to death with a long drawn out anecdote about how so much has changed and how I am now truly ready for the real world, I won’t. I don’t write to be conventional and I don’t like to bore my five readers with shit that they already have heard. Instead, I would just briefly like to impart a few nuggets of wisdom I have acquired over the last three years.
Never be Afraid to Try Something New. While college is labeled as the location for exploration, the kind of change I am talking about goes beyond binge drinking and recreational drug use. What I am talking about is fearlessness and having the courage to try something completely outside your comfort zone. During my college experience, I had changed my major three different times. From film production to international relations, I tried to always make my college experience about exploring untapped interests. For two years, I even took Russian, a language that previously had ZERO exposure to outside of the occasional old school Bond movie. Never be afraid to try something new. My generation has become so obsessed avoiding failure that they never take risks. To me, that is about the worst possible way to live. So invite new challenges into your life because the alternative will leave you wholly unfulfilled.
Never Take Yourself Too Seriously. Granted this one is a bit more personal to me, but I hate people who take themselves too seriously. All too often, people build an air of entitlement around their accomplishments, their social status or their wealth. To be honest, you probably haven’t done too much that requires you to carry yourself as a complete asshole. The sign of a truly insecure man (or woman) is when that person needs to step on other people to make themselves look bigger. In the end, you need to understand that all people are different, not necessarily better or worse. They have come from all walks of life to get to where they are now; living lives unique as the countless snowflakes fell this December. Just maybe this is the year that some people realize that life is just too damn short to allow small things to lead to a false sent of pretentiousness. As my father always told me growing up, “ There’s always somebody smarter, there’s always somebody richer and there’s always someone better looking.”
Never Leave Anything Important Unsaid. Maybe the general theme that I am trying to hit on throughout this scattered and incoherent post is that life is too damn short for most of the bullshit and drama that we allow to settle and fester in our lives. While thousand of people have made millions of dollars by selling the idea of living without regret, I prefer to go with a far more realistic way of thinking: never leave anything important unsaid. More often than not, you will regret leaving something important unsaid far more than just coming out and saying how you truly feel. We live in the age of communication, social media and ECT. Take some of that fearlessness that anonymity that we so masterfully employ and incorporate it into your real life. With every kind of relationship, friendly, romantic or professional, honesty is key. When communication and honesty die out, people lose the strongest of foundations of human interaction.
Hope I didn’t bore you all too much. Thanks as always for reading. I promise to try and make this a weekly occurrence. Maybe I should try some fiction writing next week?
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