Oh yeah, we're headed down to Cornerstone. Whoa, right? Some of my favorite memories from middle school/high school are directly from the 1 week spent living in a tent, caked in dust and on absolutely no sleep, hanging out with Phil the Raging Homosexual Sea-monkey. All we need is a van with a couch bolted into the back of it and a real doozie of a storm.
I'm excited to be going back though. It will be a different experience from anything that I ever knew before. For one, I will be over the age of 18. Also, I'm hopefully going to be having a couple of conversations about possibilities for some writing opportunities, or at least how to make those opportunities happen.
I feel like my everyone I know is getting blindsided by life right now. A year and a month out of college now and everyone is realizing that what they have been doing the last year is simply not adequate. But it's not that they are looking for adequacy. They are looking for something deeper than that. The grittiness of life. I'm not even sure. Something.
I had a conversation with Kari yesterday just getting to know one another a little better. She and her family moved out here from California and have started to help out with CAM also. It's weird to me that whenever I have a "get to know you" conversation with someone, it usually results much more in an opportunity for me to externally process more so than as opportunity for someone to get to know me better. Although, I guess they go hand in hand. It does feel a bit selfish on my part, though. Anyway, she asked me what I went to school for and I told her: English and Religious Studies, which resulted in the inevitable "Well, that doesn't seem entirely applicable" look that I get from just about everyone.
But she let me ramble for a minute and I realized something. I am really glad that is what I went for. I went for something that I was really interested in and that helped to develop me as a person and my my mind. I spent my time in college investing in me...not a degree. Because, let's face it, the average person probably switches careers 2-3 times in a lifetime, so to invest in a $40,000 education that will eventually be wasted doesn't seem so rational. Maybe this is just a way for me to justify what I majored in, but it seems entirely possible that I made a really good decision in this matter.
I can do anything with those degrees...even go back to school if I have to.
Anyway, hour and a half late. I wonder where she is.
1 comment:
I was wondering: Is it really the degree the matters or is it the journey? Sure, there are people that get a degree & then settle into a career using that degree. But, for many...dare I say...most, it's just a piece of paper to get you to the next step. I think if you totally loved your college experience, then your degree was totally worth it. No, you might not get a job that actually uses those two specialities. And, there's probably not a big demand out there for that degree. But, was your time "useless"? Absolutely not. From the little I know of you, it sounds like you got more out of your 4 years than most! Most of the people Kieran works with do not have business or computer degrees. They can train you in the applications, no problem. I really think you'll look back one day and see many pieces of your puzzle fitting together! Granted, they might not make much sense at the time. But, in the end, you just might get a glimpse of His plan for your life!
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