Tuesday, January 22, 2008

My Life's Meaning

When I was a child, I thought that grades in school are the most important things and I was also told that I had to be a success man in the future. Since then, I always tried to do my best to always get the best grades and the results of my works were pretty good with a few achievements from competitions which I participated in.

Somehow, something was just not right. I was never really happy by getting better grades from my classmates or by getting achievements for my school. I felt that my life was not really meaningful.


Why? Have I made any mistakes in my life's priorities?

I don’t think so. I agree that grades and achievements are really important for my future. BUT STILL, I’ve realized that they are not the most important things in life. I’ve seen many people around me who are not really concerned about grades and somehow I feel that they are happier than me and their lives seem so meaningful.

What’s wrong with my life? My grades are quite good and I have my friends. Isn’t that supposed to be enough? I realized that I have been missing something quite important.


DREAM

What’s your dream? What’s the purpose of your life?

Somehow I cannot answer it. I feel like I’m walking in a way and don’t know where I am going to. I have never been really happy about what I am doing because I haven’t found the real meaning of my life. I don’t have anything that I’m happy to do because I still don’t know what I like to do and not because I don’t have them. I'm sure that my life will be more meaningful if I have my dream.

I don’t have my dream and I don’t know the purpose of my life for now. But, I know that it is still not too late to start looking for my dream now and looking for what I’m all about. That’s a good thing about life that we’re never too late to start something.

So, what’s your dream? What’s the meaning of your life?

For me, I’m in my way of finding it.



4 comments:

Brad Blackstone said...

Thank you, Pascal, for this very honest post (and self-appraisal). It's interesting, well-organized and highly reflective of the challenges of your pesraonal journey!

I look forward to reading more of your writing this term!

脏脏/ellenpei said...

i have the same persecution with you. i always thought that if i got a low grades in premary school ,will i be much happier? but i know that this is a thought of escaption

Syeda said...

You are still far away from making your life a colourfull one i guess...your blog decorations say it so...well...there is time...

Su Mon said...

Well in fact i also have this kind of thoughts as you before.
But coming to oversea study make me open my eye wider and make me realize that study is not the only important thing for the student to care and there are a lot of things that can color the meaning of our life.