Tuesday, December 14, 2010

A quest for significance

William James once said, "Act as if what you do makes a difference.  It does."

So how does one insignificant college student make a difference? This is my quest.
I live my life day by day; smiling through good days, hiking through bad ones. And through each day, however it happens to turn out, I always notice atleast a small bit of good. Whether as small as a pinprick or as grand as a galaxy, the good in the world finds me daily.

As most ungrateful, insignificant community college students do, I often overlook the good in my life, and often fail to return it. I know little of how the universe works, but I suppose there is a cycle of sorts. I suppose that "what you do comes back to you." So how is it that so much good can find an ungrateful girl like me? The universe must be paying me in advance for something wonderful I am going to do someday. Something significant.

And so, I embark on a quest to become significant. To make a difference in some way, to be noticed by somebody, somewhere. Somehow. Whether it be through my writing, through the odd adventures that happen in my life, or through the intricate ideas that run through my head, I have to reach somebody sometime.