On expecting too much too soon. [23 Dec 2009|01:55pm] kaiyrah Who doesn't want to "get rich quick?" I don't know what it is, but somehow completing a college education is more difficult than it was thirty, twenty, or even ten years ago. It might be due to a number of different factors -- more general education requirements? Less staffing? Some courses only offered certain semesters? -- but regardless, it takes a long time to get a college degree nowadays. Now I know I'm only 20 years old but I feel like getting to where I am now has taken me way too long. As if I'm about three semesters behind schedule. And many of my classmates and friends at this point are already tired of school; most of us just want to get out and get a well-paying job. But we still have a ways to go. I know a few of my friends are studying toward med school. Still a few others have changed their majors and had to start from scratch. And me, I took a while to get into my necessary classes. How sad is it that many of us are still just at the beginning of what we want to do but we're already tired? We already know that the path to our goals is not easy, but deep inside we still hope that we can somehow get lucky and take the smoothest, fastest route to get to where we want to be? We've been influenced too much by our parents who were already independent, successful adults by age 22. We want that. We don't want to have to wait until 26 to settle down. If we expect too much when we're still so young, are we not setting ourselves up for failure? And if that's the case, how do we train ourselves to not expect results until much later? ---------- Just some thoughts that have been bothering me for the past month or so. Now off to do some laundry. 1 comment|post comment

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