After reading my post title you may be in utter shock and disbelief or perhaps you're in a state of pure confusion. Before anyone gets seriously injured, let me explain.
As a college student my job is to start finding what I enjoy doing and start deciding what I want to do with my life. Up to this point I had a firm desire to become an architect. I was to design grand edifices and contribute to the vast network of architecture. I was to plan and build the houses of friends and family. I was to become the best of the best in building design. But then I hit a bump.
This bump of which I refer to is also known as Literature of the Outdoors in my mind. In this spectacular class I realized that I hated the anthropogenic world in which we live even more than I originally thought. I grew to despise the crowded freeways and endless world of concrete and steel that surround us. I learned to dislike the overindulgence of technology that we humans are so inclined to participate in. As I grew and came to know myself better through the words of Henry David Thoreau and Ed Abbey, it suddenly clicked. My current career path conflicts with my dislikes.
How do I continue to go down the road that will make me a hypocrite? How do I build something that I'm not certain I'm happy putting on the pure face of Mother Earth?
Well, it's quite grand how the human mind works, because I've come up with a solution. Yes ladies and gents I've decided that I am to become a writer! I will grace the world with my eloquent words and pepper the endless library of literature with my thoughts. I will become the next Walt Whitman or Robert Frost.
Then I hit a wall. There isn't much money in the world of writing. No one reads books anymore. People instantly turn their heads at the sight of a lot of words with no pictures. Mankind is all about instant gratification now and writing doesn't appeal to the masses. So becoming a writer would be very hard and I would easily be overtaken by more superior writers than myself. So I say, "No Joe," to writing.
But who knows? Maybe I'll be a small-home-building-transcendentalist-writer-who-lives-in-rural-Utah-and-loves-nature when I grow up. Until that day, I'll take life one step at a time.
Love you all! Keep being stellar!
1 comment:
Why not do both? You can create buildings that compliment nature and this beautiful earth! Efficient, useful, uplifting buildings to bring joy and purpose. You are also a great and thoughtful writer. You have great thoughts and ideas to share.
Each of these have their challenges and opportunities. Time, thought and reliance on Heavenly Father will help you find your path.
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