Hello and welcome to my blog. I’m not a writer by any stretch of the imagination. So if you’ve arrived here expecting to see Shakespearean prose, let me assure you that you will be sorely disappointed. What will be discussed on this blog is virtually anything and everything that I’m concerned about or interested in.
I recently began attending Seneca College in Toronto, Ontario Canada. We started out with a class of approximately 38 students. We are now into our 2nd week and already I’ve noticed that there have been students whom have dropped out of the program. Seneca College is hardly unique in this regard. This phenomenon occurs literally at every post secondary campus on the planet.
What puzzles me however is why does this happen? Some would argue that this is a good thing. If one enters a program and experiences things first hand, then they are in a better position to make an informed decision. But doesn’t anyone do research any more? More specifically, why is that so many people fail to take the time to do some soul searching before they commit to something? In other words if you’re going to spend the time, effort and money planning to summit K2 or Mount Everest, would it not make sense to ask yourself ‘why’ you want to climb them? To me it would be completely absurd to arrive at the base camp of either mountain, tilt one’s head towards the summit and exclaim; “Okay, I’ve seen it…now let’s go home. It’s much bigger than I thought it was.”
There are several reasons why people quit their jobs, marriages or post secondary institutions. They lose focus, become bored, disillusioned, frustrated etc. I guess this begs the question; is the proverbial grass really greener on the other side? Is there any such thing as the perfect anything?
My summation is this: nothing worth doing is easy and conversely, nothing easy is really worth doing. Sooner or later we all must find our ‘place’ in the world and own it. We all have the power of free will and choice. We can choose to be happy or we can choose to be miserable. What do you think?
