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 Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:40 pm
So anyway, I'm turning 20 in a few days and I'm hit with my quarter life crisis.
I, up until three hours ago, had no clue what my purpose or calling was, or if I even had one. I knew I liiikked animals, and I'm studying zoology, but I still was still feeling pretty feckless in the world scheme.
Until today.
I was driving home from dinner with my family, when all of a sudden I witness this car graze a mallard and knock him in the middle of the street. I do not like seeing animals get hurt. I ran out in the middle of the street and got him off to the side of the road. I dug a box out of my trunk and after a little struggling got him into my passenger's seat. (He was pretty tame since he was in shock)
I took him to the local animal hospital because I really wasn't sure what to do. The entire staff fawned over him and named him Emmitt, put him on oxygen and told me that he had head trama.
Then the vet tech looks me in the eyes and says with more clarity than I have ever experienced in my life...
"Well, we can call the rehabilitation centre, but there really isn't anything else we can do. There isn't really any exotic animal doctors in Cincinnati"
So yeah, it struck me. Here I am studying zoology and what am I doing about this? I CONSTANTLY come across injured wildlife, sometimes things that aren't even native to the area. Somehow I'm going to be an exotic animal vet.
I'm sure everyone thinks I'm crazy, but eh. Wouldn't be the first time.
So, uhm. Do you think you were born for any purpose or calling? Is there something you've just always wanted to do, and seems more important to you than anything else? Do you have a life mission?
Have you ever handled a concussed duck?
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:46 pm
Yeah, I've been going through that myself. The whole, "What the hell am I doing with my life?" thing.
Unfortunately, I don't really have an answer, and I'm not really getting anywhere. There are a lot of things I want to do, but they're all fairly simple. I'd like to farm, and to fish, and to grow plants and such. And I want to travel. I've considered being a priest or a monk. Things like that. I like cooking. And I'd like to go into space if I could.
My life's mission is to change one person's life for the better, and see one thing that is rarely seen by people. Explore an unexplored place.
And I've never handled a live duck. Well, once, but because I was chasing them around the park and caught one.
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 6:10 pm
I still dunno, and I'm nearly a year and a half older than you. O_o I figure it'll have something to do with computers and/or writing, but there's so many options to sort through... gonk
EDIT: The only concussed being I've dealt with was myself. I threw up in the CAT scan! surprised
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 6:24 pm
I believe that I was born to help people. I am a very caring person and I enjoy serving the public. This is whyI plan to work for government early on. Becoming a "Civil Servant" to the society. I would like to know that I am helping people.
If things swing my way, I would loved to enter politics at a later point in my life. Being even a member of parliment where I represent the will of my constituents. Being a Minister of Health, Defence, Finance etc would be even more awesome. And being PM would own.
I'm one of the very few that think politics isn' corrupted and that if good people were to enter, than it would be beneficial for everyone.
I havent handeled a concussed duck
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 6:27 pm
Well, considering that I'm basically the only full-blown artist in my family, I think I found my calling way early in life. Art has become a passion for me and I've taken art classes every single year of my school-life starting back in kindergarten.
Now, what I want to do with art and the rest of my life is still something of a mystery. I figured that since I like art and computers, I'd go into digital graphics. My painting professor, however, wants me to consentraite in painting...but what would that do for a career? I simply can't sell paintings for a living...
As for a life mission...I want to be happy and I want my loved ones to be happy. For quite a while now, I've been unable to stay happy for a full week without something going wrong. I strive to be happy and to have my loved ones happy. If they're happy, I'm happy, and life would be good.
And I've never handled a duck before in any kind of situation. sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 6:30 pm
I want to be a...
Eh I will think about that later...
Poor duck.
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 6:38 pm
I wanted to be a neonatologist.
But now I'm not so sure.
I'm stuck between physical therapy, photographer and a writer.
And no.
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 8:43 pm
I don't know about the whole born for a purpose/calling shpiel...I mean, I know why I was born where I was born, but not why I was born. Or something.
I've always wanted to sing and act. Being onstage, sharing my passion with people...is more important than pretty much everything. If I can't share that, I think I'll die. It's that major to me.
Life mission: act on Broadway. Heckyeah.
I've been chased by a duck...but I've never handled a concussed one.
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 8:49 pm
My older sister has helped ducks cross the street before.
I agree with Ruido's asseration that politicians aren't inherently bad. I want to be one of the new generation of good politicians too.
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 8:49 pm
Id looove to be a photographer. But I dont have the skillz for it. Mediocre at best. Eh.
Ill probably end up working with animals in some way. Ever since I was little I would bring home injured animals and nurse them back to health. Even a duck once. xD A little wood duck. He was adorable.
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 8:51 pm
I've been in that position for a while.
When I started university, I knew I was going to major in Spanish, get a TEFL certificate, and spend my life teaching English abroad. In November, after getting that TEFL certificate, after 6 weeks teaching, and after almost 7 complete semesters of Spanish coursework, everything fell apart. Now I have no ******** clue what I want to do with my life.
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:04 pm
Sunray, you could get into painting murals. A good muralist can get paid quite handsomely. 3nodding
I like art, and thus went to a school of graphic design... where I learned that I have little-to-no graphic design skills. I'm an illustrator at heart.
I'd love to illustrate childrens' books, but all of the stories I come up with are too complicated for kids. I have the inability to keep things simple. Which you guys should have noticed by now, unless you're woefully unobservant. wink
I also, surprisingly, found in my graphic design class, that I have a "head for code." All of what I learned, however, has leaked out of my brain aside from the generic theory behind such things, but damn... we had a "quiz" in writing javascript, we had to make a webpage that did this, that, and the other thing, without looking at our notes, and I did it in about ten minutes, took the rest of the class an hour to struggle through it. sweatdrop
I was also out-handcoding my classmates after only a few days of basic HTML training. *can hand-type HTML tables in her sleep*
But I'm doing nothing with it. It's neat, and it's fun, but I don't want to have to go through schooling all over again. gonk
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:27 pm
i love learning, and i hate education
i can't stand being in school. i like to learn the stuff i want to learn, but i hate learning the stupid s**t that gets thrown in with it, "just in case"
i loved learning how to use photoshop and illustrator and stuff. now i'm supposed to learn how to use the press and I'm all "******** that"
I can do design, but I'm more an illustrator. i keep being told i should be a fashion illustrator, i've even worked as one for a bit, but i dunno, doesn't float my boat to illustrate other people's fashions, if i'm working in fashion, i want to do my own, dammit.
so idunno, i just got offered a fulltime job in Bindery at a printshop soyah, i think i'll take it, and do school parttime or maybe quit, and then try working freelance on the illustrator thing. Maybe put together a clipart CD and try find out how to market and sell it. maybe do a kidsbook. or write a webcomic and get fans and sell tshirts, i really wanna design and sell tshirts XD
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:33 pm
rayinte Sunray, you could get into painting murals. A good muralist can get paid quite handsomely. 3nodding I like art, and thus went to a school of graphic design... where I learned that I have little-to-no graphic design skills. I'm an illustrator at heart. I'd love to illustrate childrens' books, but all of the stories I come up with are too complicated for kids. I have the inability to keep things simple. Which you guys should have noticed by now, unless you're woefully unobservant. wink I also, surprisingly, found in my graphic design class, that I have a "head for code." All of what I learned, however, has leaked out of my brain aside from the generic theory behind such things, but damn... we had a "quiz" in writing javascript, we had to make a webpage that did this, that, and the other thing, without looking at our notes, and I did it in about ten minutes, took the rest of the class an hour to struggle through it. sweatdrop I was also out-handcoding my classmates after only a few days of basic HTML training. *can hand-type HTML tables in her sleep* But I'm doing nothing with it. It's neat, and it's fun, but I don't want to have to go through schooling all over again. gonk I always thought it would be really cool to write children's stories. I always thought if you just enjoyed writing something children would generally enjoy it. I always enjoyed weird things as a kid though.
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:49 pm
Nah. Either destiny's a crock, or I'm the odd man out. Probably that last one.
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