I have been so excited all day! I helped translate documents at school on my free hour. I got a long overdue doctor check up like a responsible person - and all in Spanish! ;) I got defuzzed. I ate a million bowls of cereal. I giggled a bunch more with my sick little Abby. And then, before I knew it, I was off to H's to play "pretend I have an apartment in the city"!! ^_^
So awesome.
As I type this, my dad is on a plane to come visit me and I'm too excited to sleep... Hence catching up on my blog posts until 1 am! >_< I have to be up before 6 am to get ready and head to the airport... Bah!
Anyway, I read this article posted on Facebook as I was coming into the city tonight and thought it was totally perfect to post in my blog. The satirical article points out how few people there are that are really living their dream life... But all the article did for me was make me feel so lucky to be living a life that actually is pretty darned close to mine!
I remember when I was 19 and I worked at Quad/Graphics in 12 hour shifts from 7-7, three or four days a week, on top of my other job at the pizza restaurant! It was hard manual labor in a loud, cold, concrete factory... And I was surrounded by people whose who families worked there, and who'd all worked there for decades. The monotony of the job was often overwhelming and it took all the creativity I had in me to stay mentally afloat and lots of promises of "you can eat anothern poptart when the minute hand reaches the '9,' which will signal we are 33.33% closer to being home to keep up the internal moral 12 hours shift after 12 hour shift.
My grandma knew how much I disliked it, and it made her very pleased. "After seeing people who have lived this life for decades... After you experience it yourself... After this summer... You will never take your education and your opportunities for granted again. At the young age of 19 you'll have had a peek into what kinds of lives many people find themselves stuck in, and you will never let that happen to yourself. Ever."
And boy was she right.
I see my friends my age getting married and having babies and looking for stable careers and all I can think of is that summer at Quad/Graphics. Perhaps I come across as extremely immature to the rest of the "normal" world, but I'm willing to take that "road less traveled." Not to sound corny and trite, but I do truly believe it will "make all the difference." :-P
Without further adieu, the Onion article:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/find-the-thing-youre-most-passionate-about-then-do,31742/
XOXO
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