Its easy to get discouraged with your future endeavors. Life isn’t like a package of instant hot cocoa; immediate results aren’t given, no matter how hard you try to manifest them. All good things take time to cultivate; to the universe, everything will be done quick and effortless. All we have to have is patience because with patience, time will have shaped, formed, and manifested our most desired wishes to the highest quality and satisfaction.
Thanksgiving 2007 - Casa del Montrose
My roommate Morgan’s girlfriend, Kerry, and Morgan’s guitarist, Steve gave me wonderful advice on how to approach my future. With Kerry being a USC film alum and Steve being a college drop-out turn pseudo financial manager of some company and yes, guitarist for an instrumental rock band, Beware of Safety, both had varying views on the college system and the best way to go about it. When asked the question, “What college do you want to go to? What are you interested in? What do you ultimately want to do?”, my replies usually tend to fall within the simple category of “USC. Comm. PR.” But sometimes I consider schools like Evergreen in Washington State (yes, you’re prototypical “hippie” institution.)
Kerry believed that hippie colleges were a god awful waste of time and that everyone attending them usually end up how they started: being burnouts. However Steve’s rebuttal was unexpectedly ironic and motivational. I can’t write what he said in here verbatim, but it was along the lines of:
- what you major in doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll graduate in.
- what you graduate in doesn’t mean you’ll end up doing for the rest of your life
- OPTIONS. young, talented, focused…basically options are limitless
- If you don’t like what you are doing in ten years, you can change it.
- TIME. You have so much time to figure out your future. Don’t get overwhelmed with it all today.
- Some people don’t do the school thing so well. That’s okay. Just make sure you finish it because its better to have it in the long run.
- Don’t let the idea of doing something different or unorthodox scare you
- Pursue what you want to pursue
- It ultimately doesn’t matter where you go: you can go anywhere, be anyone, and do anything. It depends on you.
Its one thing to hear it from my sister or my family… they did their college experiences at their own discretion. Its nice to hear it from those who took it at another angle, who are still just as happy and successful as everyone else. Its all relative, right?
So my life is what I make it. If there is one thing I learned from Steve, its to take everything one step at a time.
