Direction, or Lack Thereof

Had a good one last night, enjoyed YG coz I was a "vocalist" (as opposed to "backup" as Vic puts it so as to not imply you're merely 2nd rate) and Alvin chose a few songs I really like! It was also cool that Quocs, Guacs and Steve came too. Had a really chill session with my group talking about what's hot and what's not in terms of movies. Now I'm gonna try and check out "Team-America," "Baseketball" and "Dawn of the Dead" (although there was some controversy about that last one hehe). After YG ended up goin Pannies with Q and S and came up with a good, cheap solution to drinks - buy two pints of apple cider, order a jug of water and split between 3. Haha SO asian! After Pannies, guys came over to watch the cricket in which I fell asleep for most of it, and as of 2:30am this morning we were trailing by 99 runs.

So, boy oh boy, had a talk with a few people over the last week or so in regards to direction in life and I've come to discover that a lot of people don't have any.

I guess this comes about from my own personal directionless self and realise, after five full years of doing Comm/IS, maybe I don't want to forge a career in accounting or finance and definitely not IS. Maybe I should rephrase 'forge a career' to 'spend 30 years.' So anyway, people are changing courses, dropping courses, taking on more studies, just bored in general with life at the moment and while it's a bit depressing that people are all over the shop, I find solace that I'm not alone. Mind you, there have been those 'success stories' of people finally finding what they want but is it me or is it just a recent phenomenon that we don't really work that out until maybe 5 or so years after starting Uni?

I guess what I'm trying to get at is there are a fair few of people who, during Year 12 half-know what they want. They apply for their course, probably get in, spend the next few years doing that (while having some doubts along the way - although don't address it and pass it off as time wasting) then come to realise in the final year or so that it wasn't for them. I believe there are two sides to this story, the first being negative (ah the perennial good news, bad news first?) and summed up by "Stupid, stupid stupid! I wasted five years of my life!" or, positive, "Mm, at least I now know what I don't want so I can try my hand at something else."

Hmm another thing that I came across during these conversations was the fact that a lot of people didn't want to work - regardless of what job it was. They will work and do it willingly but in their Utopia, it'd be career-free. And I totally agree with that. In my perfect world, we wouldn't have the need to have a job for the sake of having one out of pride, money or power. If that were to exist, I guess there wouldn't be any commerce. I know that if I this were a reality I would still have projects but I definitely wouldn't tie myself down to one job or career. I'd have fun for sure, but I'd still have the innate desire to do something useful in life and I while would say help the poor and feed the starving, it wouldn't exist in the Utopia since there would probably be no inequality. The caveat to this is that yes, there are people out there who have perfectly fulfilling jobs already, but what I'm getting at is most people want a range of different jobs so as to not get bored and not be so dependent, financially speaking, on that one narrow job.

I can only pray that we all find our purpose in life but having said that, today is mine and Anna's 3 year anniversary. I guess there's direction in at least one aspect of my life. Happy Anniversary baby! ;)