As I am sitting enjoying my mate, after several tough days at work, I finally get to sit down and just enjoy my thoughts. I know I should be getting back to emails…that have been sent to me in June. Probably should respond to my Facebook messages, some of which I received in April. Although, I believe it is time for me to sit, relax, and enjoy my mate without anything internet- or media-related stimulating my brain.
I have recently been thinking about my studies. What I dedicated 4 very difficult and jam-packed years of my life. Just like many of my classmates, those who enjoyed being tortured by Mastering Physics or figuring out exactly where in the brain a sarcoma on the left corner of the upper-right quadrant within the left retina is damaged, every semester I took the maximum amount of credits…including summer semesters. I LOVED what I studied, and I continue to read journal articles to keep my mind fresh, particularly those concerning mirror neurons. However, I have absolutely no urge to pursue a profession within the topics.
This is a sad realization. 4 years. LOTS of money, that my dear and poor father is helping me pay (don’t worry, I’ll buy you the Porsche you always wanted soon enough). And a dream that I believed I always had…but turned out to be something I really did not want. I do not regret what I have studied, and continue to study, at all. I believe that everything I have learned will be professionally useful at some point. Maybe I will become a nutritionist. Maybe I will be an acupuncturist. Maybe I will end up attempting at a neuroscience PhD. Or, what I learned will help me succeed in LIFE. I believe I needed to study what I did study to get to where I am now…happy. And, I believe that the happier someone is, the more they will accomplish in life.
At least on Jeopardy, when they answer about Wernicke’s or Broca’s aphasia or when they answer about anti-histamines, I’ll know the question…exactly.
K bye.
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