today is the Monday of your life
Last night we watched The Motorcycle Diaries for out Social Justice Film Festival. Today we talked about Girlfriend in a Coma in America Dream Class. They made me think:1. What am I doing with my life? Here I am worrying about a test or a boy or what I'm going to wear tomorrow when there are people who have no homes and no food and who have to worry about not getting killed everyday of their lives. Their top priority is survival.
2. How am I going to make a difference in the world? I've always wanted to be a teacher. But today I was thinking, what the hell good is that going to do? How is that going to make someone's life better who really needs it? How is that going to help stop war and violence and poverty and hatred? What difference can I really make by becoming a teacher?
3. If I'm not going to be a teacher, what the hell am I going to do with my life? Become a lawyer? Trivial, to a certain extent as well. How is a lawyer going to stop hunger? How is a lawyer going to stop war?
4. I feel like I'm wasting my time. What is the point of all of this? An education to be successful but for what? What good is being successful if you don't do something good and true and leave a good impression when you die? How am I going to improve humanity? How am I going to make life better for others? How am I going to help end pain and suffering as an English teacher or a history professor or a lawyer?
5. Today was Tuesday. I had the feeling (you all know what I'm talking about) where I just couldn't wait for class to be over, where I couldn't wait for the day and week to be over. Then all of a sudden I felt that way about life. Not like suicidally. But like, today is the Monday of my life. I hate Mondays. I feel like its stagnant and I'm wasting my time sometimes. Everything seems so stupid and pointless when I think about the plight of others around the world. So I can buy Fair Trade coffee. SO WHAT?! It's not enough. It doesn't help enough people. It needs to be bigger. We need to do MORE. There needs to be no more war, there needs to be no more hunger, no more suffering because of poverty and hatred. We need to realize that we are one race. We are all humans and we all deserve to be treated as human beings. We need to respect and love each other instead of exploiting and killing each other. But how? How do I do this?
How do I make the difference?
And what the hell am I doing with my life?
Options to fix this:
Join the Peace Corps.
Become an activist
Become a politician.
Change the way people think.
Make sure the truth is known.
Start a revolution.
Become a doctor and travel the world helping people.
Not a very good list. Peace Corps is the only option where I think I could actually do something worthwhile.
posted by kellyisdelightful @ 3:57 PM
2 Comments:
Yeah, you could join the peace corps, but think about this: you've "always wanted to be a teacher." What about Mrs./Ms. Eyer? Langford? Salyer? Gray? All those teachers who had such an impact on your life. Sure, it may not be helping solve world poverty, but by positively influencing even one life, you can make a HUGE difference in the world. That would make someone (or many someones) life better who may really need it. And if you can get kids to respect you and teach them how horrible poverty and hatred and violence are, then you've just started your revolution. Small, thankless job, but there's your difference.
Just a thought.
well thanks, that makes me feel real nice
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