Now for the weekly highlights/updates of my life. Last Wednesday was our first UGA Pencils of Promise meeting, and it went really well. We gained some great insight as to the direction we really want the club to go, and the people we came seemed genuinely interested and passionate about the cause. If you haven't heard of PoP, it is an amazing organisation that provides sustainable education to specific areas of developing countries. I got to ID some bugs in my lab - somebody told me I need to start a journal of all the interesting and diverse things I do in my life. One week I told her I was going to a chicken house and the next I was heading to a field to collect samples. It's fun. But anywho, Saturday I went to the game vs N Texas with some of my friends. It was great; we managed to stay dry during the game, but the walk back to our car was another story. Here's some picture proof:
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| Before the Game |
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| After the Walk Back to the Car |
So yeah, we got quite wet. I spent my time Sunday divided between Athens Church, the Botans, volleyball, and some other random little things like laundry. Yesterday consisted of class, studying, updating my resume from freshmen year (that required a lot of changing...), DT, and a club meeting. This morning I got coffee with a friend and then walked through N campus (something I rarely get to do since I have no reason to, really) to class only to discover that it had been cancelled. I took that as an opportunity to chill out and do absolutely nothing for an hour before I headed to work. I had another meeting after work, and then I ran into my house afterwards to turn on the TV and watch the season premier of NCIS! I can't even deal with this season...So yeah, that leads me to now - me sitting here writing this post.
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And now moving on to the topic I want to talk about this week: "Watcha Gonna Do?" This was a question I got asked more times than I can count as I was growing up. I still get it now - it's the one question that never goes away. It mostly pertains to talking about the future and my career plans. But it was always a question I struggled to find an answer to. I would look at the person who asked me and maybe even around to other people in the room as if looking for cues as to what I was supposed to say. In offering up an answer to this question, I wanted to personally be happy with my choice, but more importantly, I wanted to offer an answer that would make the people around me happy and proud of me.
You see, I was so focused on what other people would think. And that's a thing that I feel like has hindered a lot of us - whether that be in the pursuing of our dreams or maybe in just expressing our opinion. Either way though, it's something that needs to be met head on and dealt with. Don't let the opinions of others be a barrier in your life that keeps you from pursuing what you truly want out of life.
Now I don't at all mean to say that you should ignore advice from everyone. No. That's in fact not at all what I'm saying. The people who love you tend to want what is best for you. Take their advice seriously. Often times they're usually feeding back to you what you offer up to them.
Take your parents for example. I heard a story about a girl who told her parents she wanted to be a lawyer, and her parents were very supportive in urging her to keep up and pursue a law school. Well, somewhere along the way, that girl changed her mind and decided that she wanted to work with non-profits. Afraid of disappointing her parents, she didn't mention it at first. However, after a year, she was talking to her mom on the phone and they began to talk about her future. The girl started crying and explained to her mom her new plans, apologizing the whole time. She was so afraid of letting her parents down because she was sure they wanted her to go to law school. When she voiced that to her mom, her mom responded by saying that the only reason they had been pushing her so hard in the direction of law school was because they thought that was her dream and because she had expressed that to them several years ago.
Take what you will from that story. But know this - dreams can change. That answer to "Whatcha gonna do?" can also change. And (I'm preaching to the choir here) that's ok.
I'm going to finish off this very scatter-brained blog post with a quote picture I made a few weeks ago. (Fun Fact: this was my senior quote in the yearbook.) The background photo was taken by me in Akaroa, NZ in case anyone was wondering. I hope this post made sense...it kind of ended up going in a different direction than I had initially intended, but that's ok. That's what you get with a stream of consciousness blog posting I guess. Maybe I'll do another post later actually putting this post into my own life and talking about how my dreams for the future have changed over my lifetime.
Until next time,
Megan
Useless Fun Fact: (I'm going to start putting one of these at the very end of my Tuesday blogs too.) Peanut Butter is one of the foods that has the highest insect inclusion allowance.
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