A Small Sacrifice

You’re understandably in a difficult time right now, a transition point. You are preparing to begin to make your way through life under your own power. This is both scary and intimidating, to be sure. And the accompanying uncertainty easily brings alive every misgiving you may have ever had about this admittedly messy world we call life.

It’s good to hear that you choose to challenge yourself with some difficult schoolwork. It’s been obvious that school is not providing enough stimuli to invoke much interest in work. What was unfortunate was that while a program may be set up to challenge one’s physical and mental resources, they are not set up to challenge one’s imagination and creativity – thus it is boring.

Nevertheless, I think, it is a great experience. To have to draw upon your resources of discipline, not only so that you know that you are capable of using them – and therefore more confident in yourself – but also so that you realize there is a price to pay in doing so, and thus learn that it is wise to evaluate the value of doing so before making such a commitment.

Unfortunately, you will still have to endure some more tedious and boring life requirements. So put a smile on your face and face them with joy. However, in the near future, if it hasn’t happened already, you will fall into some very interesting field. Perhaps quite by accident. Which will engage you and your interests so much that you will gladly work until way past 12:00 and not even notice the time. (You may choose to call it a “career” if you like.)

And you may just find that it is not whether life has meaning, it’s that you have given it meaning. And it’s certainly ok to bitch about stuff too.