Graduating from college is now off my "To-Do" list. Funny thing is my B.S. in Biology feels about as significant as my high school diploma to me. Until I'm working as a pharmacist after I graduate from a pharmacy school with a professional degree to practice pharmacy and my PH.D. to teach it if I choose then everything else is irrelevant to me. My biggest fear is complacency. If I'm not taking measureable steps in a certain direction then I might as well be running in place. These last four years have been filled with so many failures, successes, dumb decisions, triumphs, distractions, and enlightenment. There are things I wish I could change based on hindsight and the wisdom I now have. In life, all we can do is learn from the things we get wrong and focus on the things we get right. You can keep that quote I don't mind.
Well what have I gotten right? Well I could come up with a list of things to make myself feel good about the answer to that question, but at the root of everything I've done to get to where I am at this moment is the fact that I've never accepted impossibility. I've never accepted the idea that I'm incapable of anything. Whether it was playing football in high school when I was only 138lbs to running track and excelling at long distance events racing against nothing but white guys with long legs to deciding to choose Biology as my major in undergrad instead of a subject that came easy to me like English or History. I always adopted this mindset of "why not?". I want to help others, I want to have a nice lifestyle for my family, I'm pursuing science because I enjoy it and its the path I chose to fulfill those things and if that path is difficult then I'll just find a way to make it work because thats what you do when you don't settle for less.
That even carries over to relationships.... (new post for that see Commitment vs. Complete Lack of Commitment)
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