A Time and A Place: Post-Grad Blues

It's been said that there is a time and a place for everything. And well I believe this true for people too. Not in the "you have no choice how your life ends up" way, but more a long the lines of how people tend to come in to our lives when we need them for whatever particular reason, just as we somehow find ourselves in the life of other people when we feel like we have something to offer them.
I also believe this saying for people in the way my great-grandmother put best that "every dog will have his day" but normally because of the reason she felt to state this saying she always followed that with "but you are just a pup."
My post-grad blues find me now because I'm not sure if I "am just a pup" anymore. Have I already been the most useful I can be? Has that "a time and a place" moment already lead itself into my life? Why do I feel so useless to society right now? I've always felt as though I was made to do something spectacular for people's embetterment everywhere, but maybe it was a smaller scale of people than I thought...I'd like to at least believe that I made some positive difference or impact to the people that have been in my life so far but does that mean that that is it for me?
I'm starting to think not, but I guess only time will tell.
Post-Grad Blues...what should I do with my now educated life...society (and most adults, my mom included) say I should get a job but unfortunately the economy says there is little hope for that right now. More than anything I wish I could be a professional learner...one can dream.
So I've come to perhaps a conclusion just to comfort myself...but nonetheless, it must be true that we as human beings can have many instances of us having "a time and a place." To beleive that you can only have "15 minutes of fame" so to say, is just depressing and unrealistic in the terms of making an impact. Anybody, at anytime can make even the slightest difference in or on the world, you just have to accept the moment and embrace the situation. Carpe Diem right?
Perhaps just living in a way that not only makes you happy but makes the world a better place is what our time and place is all about. Perhaps even, the time and place is infinitly in exisitance, we just have to find the courage and inpiration to bark loud enough.

So I have found the cure to post-grad blues...Knowing that a time and a place for me is, always has been and always will be every moment as long as I am living. If in fact every dog has his day, I am sure glad I am not a dog.

Blog Name Change

Hey all!
So as you can see I have changed the name of my blog so I thought that I would let y'all know what's up about that and such...
So over the last year I have realized a call to "radicalize." Not in the sense that I'm "crazy" or "obsessed" with screaming (unless necessary) about the"lies our government tells us" kinda stuff...even though I might comment on institutionalization and implementation of the systems and individuals that promote such crap as need be...but I am going to be talking about my "awakening" to the way things are/might be in relation to how it affects me and my life.
So, my blog's main purpose is still the same...I am going to be commenting on my life and the posts will still be of personal tone just that I will no longer post those posts which reflect my old way of conformist speaking and thinking.
I ended some of my first few blogs with "Off to change the world"...I have now figured out how and why I felt like the world needed changing and how I fit into that...So I'll let y'all know how things turn out as things turn up.
Peace,
Now off to change the world. :)

What Makes Life so Great

Well followers, I know I've been neglecting you by not providing any words of wisdom, thought of the day or story telling time lately but something occurred to me today that I simply must share.
Well, here it goes. Enjoy :)


So today on a walk with my mom we somehow got on the subject of what all I had learned while in school the last 16 years of my life. Of course since I am a Communications major I was more than happy to share this, that,
and the other about my gender and communications class, my persuasion class, my mediated communication class and the list goes on and on....
Talking about what I had learned got me thinking about the fact that I am about to graduate in May. No more classrooms. No more homework. No more Blackboard. No more countless sleepless nights spent at Mullins library. These are things yes that I am surely going to miss. I really love school, always have and I am not ready to leave an institution where learning is encouraged, knowledge is earned, and intelligence is valued. These are all things I've always valued, now more than ever. . . .
Graduating in May means I've been polishing up my resume to send out to possible jobs. This has made me really look at myself critically and personally. But really putting together a resume is just as easy as putting together a list of qualifications and skills you are particularly good at.

So I sat down to write the things I am good at.
"Let's see umm...I'm good with computers and technology....math....writing...."
I stopped myself.
"Math, technology and writing?....Did I pick the right major? Should I have been an engineer? "
But then it hit me. Besides the fact that I feel as though I have close to mastered Communications, but that it is something I have really enjoyed.
I mean I know my major had nothing to do with what I've always been good at (besides talking too much) but I don't really want to do math all the time, and I sure do not want to be fixing people's gadgets for a living.
I mean why should you be stuck doing something you don't really want to do just because you're good at it. I understand that the better you are at a job the more money you'll make, but money isn't everything. Sure, money makes life easier, but I don't think money makes life worth living.
I don't know about you but when I was little I didn't wake up wanting to go make as much money as I could. No, I woke up wanting to go play with my friends, or my dogs. I wanted to go ride bikes, go to dance class, or learn how to do something new. Adventure, curiosity, and feeling the love of family and friends was what all my being stemmed from.

I think there's a lot to be said about that. Perhaps we should reach into our "inner child" and live with curiosity and integrity in each move.

We need to realize that what makes life so great isn't our unearned privilege of certain skills (thank you genetics) but what we learn. That love not only solves all problems but helps prevent them from happening. And that friendship is nothing short of a priceless gift.

Yes, I will miss going to class everyday, the library and yes even Blackboard...but what I'll miss most is the life I experienced with the people who I was lucky enough to experience it with. You know who you all are.

So now a note to those I've been blessed enough to be with throughout the last almost 4 years of my life....

Thank you for being a shoulder for tears, a smile for laughs, arms for hugs, ears to listen, a friend, a sister, but most of all...thank you for making my life so great.