I’m floundering. I’m a fifth-year college senior and when people ask me the inevitable question “what do you want to do?”, I don’t have any sort of answer. I’m still just figuring things out. Maybe that isn’t so bad for someone who is only 22 years old, but on the flip side of the coin I could have easily graduated college with a Masters degree by now.
There are over six billion people on the Earth, far more than there has ever been before. And due to advancements in communication technology, most notably the Internet, it makes each person increasingly less significant. Who cares if you fall off the face of the Earth? So what if you get lost in the fray? To some extent I have a pretty strong need for achievement. Growing up in school I tied a large amount of my identity to being the smart kid; in retrospect, I would probably spend more effort on interpersonal relationships and less on the computer or doing homework, but that’s the past.
Let’s say you die tomorrow. How will you be remembered? Even better, what if you die in 10 years from now? What will you have accomplished in the next ten years to make yourself remembered and cherished past your time shared with the rest of us?
