Mandatory Post I

I hate to be difficult but, I have no answers for who I think I am or why I exist or whatever other existential questions could be posed to provoke meaningful thought. If my thoughts didn’t move faster than I could control and my opinions didn’t change with every experience, then maybe, just maybe, I could give a sufficient answer. In this moment, I could think I’m clever but, in a few moments I could think I’m pretentious or maybe last week I thought I was funny but, this week I think I have no sense of humor—see the conflict? So I guess the extent of my thoughts of myself can be summed up so prettily into a neat little category of ‘undecided’. Or maybe I’m just avoiding unpleasant truths and choosing to exist comfortably in a bed of lies? Either way, the whole point of life is the  journey, no? A journey of self-discovery, naturally.

And as it should be of no surprise, I don’t really have much opinion on college either. I go because I have to and I have no real concerns about it or more specifically freshman year because school is school is school; it’s the same thing I’ve been facing most of my life—same pressures, same concepts, same purposes, different buildings, different people, different moments in my life. Life, in general, is a series of modified repetitions of that which came before. So, I can’t say I’m really worried about anything because college and the problems it poses aren’t that difficult or important in the grand scheme of life because it’s only a few years out of life.

 

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One Response to Mandatory Post I

  1. jm124766 says:

    Thank you for your post Christen. It’s interesting that you think your college experience is going to be the same as high school/junior high/elementary. I guess my question will be: what do you want to make of this seemingly “monotonous” experience? Why does it have to be “school is school is school?” Why can’t school be something else? To me, school is education, work, friends, club, responsibilities, etc. I mean, I am not tying to impose my views onto you. I just want to know what makes you think your four years in college is insignificant. But i do hope you enjoy your four years here. Stay open minded 🙂

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