Confessions of a Struggling College Student

It is difficult to distinguish myself between adult and child. There are different standards for both, yet college students are somehow expected to encompass all of them? They tell you to figure out what you want to do with your life when you're 21, but they also tell you to live in the present moment and feel young for as long as possible. It's hard, keeping up all these expectations people have of you. If you ask me, you have been chosen as a golden child if you have figured out what you want to do with the rest of your life while still eating mediocre ramen in the library on a Tuesday night. Personally, I have absolutely no f****** idea what I want to do with my life. I'm going to be completely honest here and express the fact that I feel like I have taken up the act of disassociation to delay even thinking about my future self. In all reality, you do not, and I repeat, do not, have to figure out what to do with your life right now. I would say start figuring out how to be a better person and what inspires you.

Inspiration is an interesting topic. See, the wonderful thing about inspiration is that it can make you change your entire life to fit what makes you see the beauty in this messed up world. Finding something that inspires you can change the way you feel about life. This is why, in my opinion of course, colleges should not be telling students to pick one particualr curriculum that forces you to believe this is all their is to life. Rather, they should be helping students figure out what inspires them. How would they do this? Well, that's up to them.

These institutions have you believing that your whole entire life has to be chosen out of 50 provided courses. If I wanted to feel trapped, I would be attending school at an escape room, not a university. No one likes to feel trapped and categorized into something they do not feel like they belong to. Being trapped leads to a trapped mind. College students, even students in general, need to feel like the possibilities in life are absolutley endless and it is okay to not like your major. The whole point of college is to get these students an education by making them choose one topic which will hold them accountable for the rest of their lives. I'm all set with that.

What defines a purpose? Something that inspires you. I am not being synicl by saying college does not do anything for you. College should be apart of finding your purpose, just a little bit altered. These schools need to make students feel like they can breathe when they do not want a 9-5 job the second they move out of their dorm room because I surely do not feel prepared for that adventure. My point is, and schools I'm talking to you, stop suffocating the future of America. Provide guidance in terms of guiding students to their inspiration. Life seems a lot more blissful when it is put this way. Once you find your inspiration, you will be successful no matter what because that is your purpose.

Life is going to be full of people shoving down ideas down your throat to make you conform to a certain sector of society. My guidebook basically says to find things that inspire you and give you that glimmer of pure bliss. Pay attention to what gives you purpose. Pay attention to what does not make you question absolutely everything.