You’re going to face resistance and backlash both from impersonal social structures, and from people who do not like it when others rock the boat. Because society is built against allowing you to do what you want, and really need, you’re going to be treating society like the enemy to a degree. Some people are fortunate – not because they were already born into wealth, but because they have parents who have already bucked society’s conditioning and helped put their child into a position to be able to more easily choose to do what they really want with their life.Įven so, doing what you actually want to do is more possible than many ever believe it is – but it’s not pain free. Therefore, from birth, people grow up surrounded by a societal structure that strongly interferes with them deciding to go do what they want now, rather than after fifty years of running inside a hamster wheel. “Doing what you want to do” is considered a reward for having sacrificed the majority of your life to something you don’t want to do. One of the challenges people face with following this advice is that our society is structured in a way to discourage it at the fundamental level. But I know this, I’m going to try my hand at a lot of things in college including – theatre, photography, writing and experimental physics! I’m open to a career in both academics and arts now! □ Now I feel like I was blind to and oblivious about so many things in the world. I’d never really given serious thought to anything in this regard and just passively, meekly accepted a path in life. Right now, I am preparing for my school leaving exams and still really confused about what to study in college. You graduate, take a course in management, get a job and you’re set! Changes are happening in the way people think about careers but engg./med is still pretty much predominant. It is because it is considered one of the ‘safest’ things to do. Here in India, a degree in engineering is the status quo for most middle class kids who are bright enough to crack the entrance exam (there are a lot of them). World travel seems to feature on a lot of lists haha. Going through the comments, I’m really surprised to see how many people feel the same way as I do. Thanks for the great comic gav, maybe it was the long break, but I just appreciated it more than the last ones. I mean I’d look for someone who’s into travelling as well, but with kids and everything it doesn’t seem so reasonable to go ice-climbing, or learn base-jumping. Unless, and that’s also one to consider, it get married first. I’m much more passionat about sciences like pyhsics (which I’m also taking a class in) and also doing extreme sports in foreign places, travelling and meeting locals learning about our planet and the different people.īut I just figure it’s not right to drop out and do that, I’ve got 2 years left till I have my degree and then I’ll do whatever the heck itches me. However much I’d like to work in a field that allows me to create more social justice and fight poverty, studying all the meaningless crap as it were in some subjects just doesn’t “itch” me, really. Meaning getting my college degree in social economics. I love it, no doubt, it speaks to me like many of other similar quotes.īut right now I’m really just trying to maybe for the first time in my young life to be diligently devoted to work hard to achieving something. I’m actually in quite a dilemma with this. – I’m finally on Google+, check out the new Zen Pencils page. – You can also get an Alan Watts app for the iPhone containing all his lectures. – There’s a ton of Alan Watts stuff on YouTube, some of his lectures have even been animated by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. – Watch the great YouTube video this quote was taken from. I had never heard of Alan Watts before so thanks to everyone who suggested I look into him and adapt one of his quotes. This is another example of my readers educating me. Watts had over 25 books published and recorded over 400 lectures, many of which have found a new audience on YouTube. During the 60s and 70s he toured extensively on the college lecture circuit and became a celebrity among the growing youth movement. He gained a wide following after moving to the United States where he published numerous books on Zen and Eastern philosophy. Alan Watts (1915-1973) was an English philosopher and writer who played a large part in popularising Zen Buddhism in the west.
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