Pre Graduation Reflection

When have we ever been given the time to think?

We graduate from college and we’re thrown into this idea that we need a 9-5 that involves dialing nine numbers a thousand times a day for someone with a bigger paycheck. Why are we taught that having a crappy day is the only way? And to live that way, everyday? How did we get so brainwashed?

And to think it’s all with a quick, swift kick in the pants that we’re booted out the door and thrown into the mix of 'real' life. I can just hear my $50,000 college education yelling, “Sorry, no instruction manual or textbook for that kind of thing,” when my parents toss me out the door in their, “learn to swim,” fashion.

Now my intention is not to draw attention to the work world’s reality. My intention is to draw all of our attention to our own reality. So in order to do so, we must ask ourselves the tough questions, “What is our reality? What is our potential? What did we promise the world?” To those questions, we may never have the right answer, but what we do have, is the answer that feels right, to us.

I don’t want to feel the obligation of answering any more mindless questions about what I want to be when I grow up, or what I plan to do with my life after college. But what I do want is to find the raw emotions that I had at one point in time, and search for the passion that burns inside of me. I want something to inspire me to act on the dreams I have, or the dreams that I learned to suppress and bury deep down in an attempt to stomach what actually becomes our reality. NINE TO FIVE.

A month from graduating, I'm getting the feeling that we all had dreams that we gave up for that secure job with the government. You know, the job that our parents told us had awesome benefits and a steady paycheck with great opportunity for advancement? Who knew that the dream job we were taught to strive for really meant having a job that pays us from 9-5, even though we work a 5-9 and volunteer for a full day’s work on Saturday so we’re not replaced with someone willing to do more for less. NOT FAIR.

Well, world, “Suck it!” Seriously. I’m aware of the potential my generation has. I hate having to think that some of us have to go through the torture of postponing our dreams until we get home at night. We all have DREAMS BURIED ALIVE.

Listen, I know the gravity of our potential, if we only keep following our dreams. Take that journey! This is our life; who’s to tell us what we need to be doing at every waking hour? Take the time to think. Find you, be you; and in being completely and wholly you- discover your dream. FOLLOW THAT DREAM.