...anyway. First things first. I believe I may have misspoken the other day, in my first post. I don't think this will turn out to be a giant mess of me complaining all over the place. I think it'll be a 33.33333-each-way split of the following things:
1. Me complaining. Sorry, but it's gonna happen.
2. Me talking about stuff I love or really, really like.
3. Me contemplating. Contemplating what, you ask? Stay tuned in and you'll find out. ;)
So now that that that's out of the way...today is going to be of the third variety, with a little overlap into the second. Almost none of the first, I think. We'll see.
I just read this really awesome excerpt, of sorts, from what promises to be a really, really good book. (That's a link, right there. Maybe I do understand this technology stuff...). It's all about how to be a successful writer, or artist, but personally I think it looks like it'll be a book that explains how to be a successful human. Because after the basic breathing, eating, and sleeping, who really knows how to be a human? The ten tips shared in the excerpt will be implemented--probably to varying degrees of dedication--to my own life within the next couple weeks...after that I'll take a step back and see if it looks like anything has changed. If so...I'll have to buy his book. I'll probably buy it anyway.
So there's my gushing review of a book I haven't read but already love...Now stay with me, 'cause here comes the contemplation bit. This little bit of reading made me think, as I often do, about what I will do for The Rest of My Life. Yeah, I have the next five or six years planned out (ask really nicely and I might post The Plan someday!), but after that? I don't know what I want to do! I just decided the other day that I definitely think I'm not cut out to be a journalist. Which I had already been told by someone who knows me quite well, but I wasn't ready to accept it right then. I just don't like people enough to be able to interview them and get information and quotes and whatnot for stories. Wouldn't work. So now I have to consider what I do want to do for The Rest of My Life. And yes, it really does need to be capitalized like that every time.
And this little excerpt is all about making it in the world, which is obviously what most everyone wants to do...including me. Which you would think would mean you have to know who you are and what you want, but the second thing on his list is "Don't Wait Until You Know Who You Are To Make Things." This seems a little counter-intuitive to me... How the heck do you get/make what you want if you don't know what you want to get/make?! But I can also see the wisdom in this. Because if you don't know what you want, you might just end up making or doing a lot of cool things you wouldn't have if you had chosen what you wanted and just flat-out done it. It's about the journey, not the destination, anyway.
But back to my problem... I will have to choose a major. Soon. So I should at least figure that out, even if I don't decide right now what I want to do for The Rest of My Life just yet. I really want to double major (double the job opportunities once I'm through with school), and one of those majors will be Environmental Science. I love the environment. I love everything about it. It's something I could really fight for, and I would really enjoy some of the careers that could come with a degree in that field. But as for the other major...well, who knows. Up until last week, it was going to be Journalism. But that just isn't going to work out very well for me. Maybe I could do Creative Writing? I think I could get into that. I do enjoy writing, if not the journalistic sort. I like having my freedom with what I say...stupid freakin' AP Style has stolen a lot of that from me in my current journalism class.
I'm now going to have to see what careers are available in that field. And also check out which of the colleges I've been accepted to have both Environmental Science and Creative Writing. It's important to me to one-up everyone and double major. (Man, doesn't internet sarcasm suck?!)
Goodnight!
--Razza Ragazza
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