September 17, 2011
Thoughts on life
“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”
Elbert Hubbard said that. I don’t know much about that man, except that he and his wife both died when German U-Boats sank the RMS Lusitania, but I do know that Hubbard knows what he is talking about.
For the longest time I thought I was missing out on life; I thought that my friends led such exciting lives, and here I was just going through the motions.
To quote a song from Tangled, I was basically wondering when will my life begin?
But I realize now that I live an absolutely fantastic and privileged life!
No, I’ve never been abroad, nor have I accomplished any great feat, but I have laughed probably more than most people on Earth. I’ve seen natural beauty so fantastical and magical that it leaves me with no doubt that God exists. I get to work in my dream job field and get paid for it even though I haven’t graduated yet. I have a wonderful niece and nephew. I’m blessed in about a thousand ways.
It’s kind of silly when I think back on what I thought merited a worthwhile, fulfilled life–living on campus and traveling to foreign destinations come to mind. Those are both fine things, but they certainly don’t make one’s life greater than someone who hasn’t done those thing. To be perfectly honest, I always thought I was boring simply because I had never done those things. The idea seems absurd to me now.
I know plenty of people who live on campus and from what I can see, live rather uneventful lives. I know people who have traveled to wonderful, gorgeous places across the world and are just as interesting as I am.
I have big dreams for the future and I am incredibly excited to see what life has in store for me in the coming months. I recently just started my internship at Doublethink magazine in Washington, D.C. and I can’t wait to see where it takes me.
Life is awesome and it’s what we make of it.
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