Comments | tigerlily584: I have a feeling that you don't care anymore and you're right, it's my fault

tigerlily584

I have a feeling that you don't care anymore and you're right, it's my fault

Mar 22, 2006 13:42

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goldyfiftyone March 22 2006, 19:16:10 UTC

what do you want to do? i mean...assuming that degrees didn't mean anything...and there was a big safety net to catch you. not 'what job do you want?' but 'what do you actually want to be doing?'

yellowagi March 22 2006, 20:52:30 UTC

MEGHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Poor Christian! But at least there was some humor. I got the same letter. And my mom refuses to be listed as a reference, so I'm in the same boat as you. Congratulations on the MFA internship! I seriously doubt if any of us are anything other than a muddle of complicated tastes and muddled waste at the end of our college years. I am not fond of Victorian literature. And yay for being grad students? At least we know what it would be like? And now we can feel better about not doing it? Today is the fifth day my ears have been plugged. And I think that goldyfiftyone--absolutely no offense meant--displays a great degree of idealistic sentimentality in his question. Call me a cynic, call me a cynical pragmatist, but in the end, it's not about what you want to be doing. It's about what you must do in order to do what you want to be doing. But we'll get there, Meg. Once we figure out what to do so we have time to think about what we want.

goldyfiftyone March 22 2006, 22:35:02 UTC

i guess that's the difference between those of us who's careers are our passions...and those of us who's careers afford us the ability to have passions.

but my point is still my point. you are young enough...and creative enough to follow a real, live dream. i don't know what that dream is. but my guess is that it is not an internship or a bagel (although i would kill for a good bagel).

that person is, indeed a cynic. there are dreamers out there who design lives so that they wake up every morning and want to exactly what it is that they have to do.

and they get by.