onetwothreefour
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yes, this is quite similar to the rave-thread on defining moments, but a little broader.
i was thinking about this a bit recently, as i often have a lot of difficulty motivating myself toward one clear direction in my life, but have been doing a little better lately.
as of about two years ago, i found that, a i was half-way through my degree with no real idea of where i wanted to go. and though i realise the benefits of keeping one's future open to new things, it was time to actually decide where i was going. sadly, though, that didn't work. instead, i procrastinated and procrastinated and procrastinated until the decision just sort of jumped out at me.
but it did - about a year back (after changing my major about four times), i actually realised that all this fucking around just kept putting me back on the same path. i wanted to do cinema studies. it obviously doesn't seem like a particularly dramatic decision (really, nothing in an arts degree could be described as "particularly dramatic" ), but to me it really was.
since then i haven't looked back - as all my friends know i'm a total geek, and now i actually have something to throw my geek-love into :D
my career, of course, is still pretty non-existent, but the very fact that i made a decision and have been able to stick to it (and haven't once doubted my choice) means that the moment i decided this is probably the most important moment of my life.
second to that would be the moment i was dropped from my football team. until then, i had decided that i *was* going to play football for the rest of my life. i was at university, but it was a back-up plan, and that's all. even though i'd had some pretty severe injuries over the preceding couple of years, i guess i was still in denial as to how dramatically it might affect my actual career. so the moment i got the call into the office (never a good sign), things began to change. i guess it was this moment which actually set in motion all of the events of above.
now, i'm sure that was all very dull, but i presume some of you interesting people have some really intriguing things to say, so i'll hand it over to y'all :D
i was thinking about this a bit recently, as i often have a lot of difficulty motivating myself toward one clear direction in my life, but have been doing a little better lately.
as of about two years ago, i found that, a i was half-way through my degree with no real idea of where i wanted to go. and though i realise the benefits of keeping one's future open to new things, it was time to actually decide where i was going. sadly, though, that didn't work. instead, i procrastinated and procrastinated and procrastinated until the decision just sort of jumped out at me.
but it did - about a year back (after changing my major about four times), i actually realised that all this fucking around just kept putting me back on the same path. i wanted to do cinema studies. it obviously doesn't seem like a particularly dramatic decision (really, nothing in an arts degree could be described as "particularly dramatic" ), but to me it really was.
since then i haven't looked back - as all my friends know i'm a total geek, and now i actually have something to throw my geek-love into :D
my career, of course, is still pretty non-existent, but the very fact that i made a decision and have been able to stick to it (and haven't once doubted my choice) means that the moment i decided this is probably the most important moment of my life.
second to that would be the moment i was dropped from my football team. until then, i had decided that i *was* going to play football for the rest of my life. i was at university, but it was a back-up plan, and that's all. even though i'd had some pretty severe injuries over the preceding couple of years, i guess i was still in denial as to how dramatically it might affect my actual career. so the moment i got the call into the office (never a good sign), things began to change. i guess it was this moment which actually set in motion all of the events of above.
now, i'm sure that was all very dull, but i presume some of you interesting people have some really intriguing things to say, so i'll hand it over to y'all :D