The Difference Between Ideal and Real
Something this last few years has just really struck home with me, and that is the vast gulf between the ideal and real.
When I thought about the ideal before, it was always in the context of Plato, and his "Forms." The recurring example was the ideal "chair" that is the perfect example of "chairness." This is not something that you can envision ( Read more... )
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At that point I was suffering from the "don't know my future, don't know if I will be happy" quite intensely. I was a ways from graduation, I had no concrete plans, and I was very much afraid that I would end up somewhere at a job that I would be miserable in.
It ook me a while, but I relized that wherever I ended up doing whatever, I would be able to make myself happy, with friends and hobbies and other things; and if I could not because there was something truly systemically wrong with where I ended up being, that would be a good reason to initiate changes. As you say, there is no ideal job. But we make it work for ourselves.
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