Sep. 22nd, 2004
two observations
Sep. 22nd, 2004 08:36 am"Today's the first day I've had the distinction of waiting for the door to open for breakfast. Even if the door opens as I arrive, so I never really have to even slow down."
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"I never realized until just now that my eartails can fly."
For some reason, this last puts me into an extremely good mood.
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"I never realized until just now that my eartails can fly."
For some reason, this last puts me into an extremely good mood.
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Sep. 22nd, 2004 06:23 pmSo apparently I get to play councilor.
Maybe it's because I was raised to be much more independant than most people my age, but the whole "but my parents want me to" and "my parents are the ones paying for this" arguments don't stop me in my tracks. I get the feeling that was thrown out as a clincher, somehow. To which I respond: "you're the one going here, not them," and "there's no reason to follow a course of study that you don't enjoy". There's nothing wrong with changing a major, after all. It's a typical thing to do. Even more important is to look beyond the parents to a time when you're going to be supporting yourself - and if what you're doing means you're going to be having a job that you won't enjoy, then you're pretty much wasting a huge part of your life because "my parents want me to". And no matter how much they might, I really don't think they would insist if doing so would make you unhappy. After all, if you're going to put up with the parasites known as children, it's because you love them, right?
Much better to face a little unpleasantness now than a lot of unpleasantness for the next 30 or so years.
Maybe it's because I was raised to be much more independant than most people my age, but the whole "but my parents want me to" and "my parents are the ones paying for this" arguments don't stop me in my tracks. I get the feeling that was thrown out as a clincher, somehow. To which I respond: "you're the one going here, not them," and "there's no reason to follow a course of study that you don't enjoy". There's nothing wrong with changing a major, after all. It's a typical thing to do. Even more important is to look beyond the parents to a time when you're going to be supporting yourself - and if what you're doing means you're going to be having a job that you won't enjoy, then you're pretty much wasting a huge part of your life because "my parents want me to". And no matter how much they might, I really don't think they would insist if doing so would make you unhappy. After all, if you're going to put up with the parasites known as children, it's because you love them, right?
Much better to face a little unpleasantness now than a lot of unpleasantness for the next 30 or so years.