2009-12-20 Update: Be careful not to become too jaded or polarized from reading this.
It’s easy to forget how heartless most people are when you’re not around them.
At the beginning of the semester, my speech teacher asked all the students what their majors were, and what they were going to do with their lives. What did he get?
Boring replies.
No conviction. No one was committed to anything they said. There were a lot of “I don’t know”s. Those are bad, but even worse are the people who have been brave enough to “choose” a path… but they’ve chosen one that inspires no confidence. You know these people. Often, they’ll even say what they really want to do with exciting enthusiasm, but then in the same sentence they’ll say how unrealistic it is. These people think they’re really smart. They think they’re being “grounded” and “down to earth” by choosing a “reasonable” career. No one will tell them anything different.
But really, what are they?
Heartless people.
They’ve sold out. They’re not even twenty, and they’ve already committed themselves to doing what they hate for life. And that’s reasonable? We’re telling the children of the world that selling out is reasonable?
Shame on us.
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