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Waiting For May flowers
By Anna Garziera | 4 days agoPerhaps, we need something simpler: the permission to take a break.
Perhaps, we need something simpler: the permission to take a break.
By freeing up that mental space, we can go on learning “more important things” like physics and philosophy. But at the same time, there is an associated cost. We are losing independence.
In a school as industry-driven as Duke, it is surprising how little we students appreciate certain life skills that are invaluable to our future careers. Writing is one of them.
However, the underlying motivation is clear: Advice-givers are either trying to grow their fan base or their wallet.
If we acted exactly the same around all of our acquaintances, we’d have very few colleagues and even fewer friends.
FOMO is going around faster than the flu these days, with everything from Rush to UNC games to miss out on. However, by releasing unnecessary obligations, college life will start to feel a lot more manageable.
At the end of the day, it is not our future self that will be asked to work towards that goal, but our current self.
As a rule of thumb, this is exactly what gratefulness affords us: a better perspective. By pinpointing what is most important to us, daily battles feel relatively insignificant.
We should shut the bathroom faucets at night before we resort to becoming vegan, in an effort to save the world.
With two months left in the year, we have to act with conviction that it is not too late. Planting a seed today might get us at least a sprout by December.