Most people spend their entire lives searching, wishing, wanting that quintessential thing that makes like worthwhile. Whether it is another person, that perfect job, some sort of certificate, or what it be. Yet we all strive for the same commen goal, no matter what form it may take...Recognition. Literally speaking, recognition is receiving praise or somethign else for the things we do in life, our acheivements, our actions, and our attitude. For a doctor, somethign as amazing as saving someones life is an everyday occurance for them, and thus somethign they belive they just do. Same goes for a soldier, they save someones life, and its just another day in the job. Vetrenarians, teachers, scientists even, every day they do amazing things, but everyone just looks at them like its somethign they are supposed to do. Sure every now and then they recieve an award, or some small token of appreciation for what they do, but in this day and age, it takes nothing less than a small miracle for someone to get any sort of appreciation in this world.
Which brings me to my point. With all the pressure that is put on us as teenagers/young adults to find somethign to do with our lives, how can we possibly choose somethign from the vast ocean of careers. When a childs supreme goal in life is to make their parents proud, how can recognition or praise be acheived when in our world, miracles are no longer anything mroe than everyday mundane tasks. a millenia ago when a doctor rescued a patient from what was certain death, they were made into gods on earth. Which is why there were no large allotment of Bums in the early Roman society and even into the late 1200's. Careers did not begin to be a problem until the miracles of life just became another day at the office so to speak.
All of these seems to have stemmed from a conversation with my mother earlier today when she told me i needed to find something to do with my life. Well...if nothing i have done so far has made them proud of me, than what hope do I hold that anythign i do in the future will? What promise that anythign i can learn to do, or learn to better excell at will bring me any hope of that everlasting praise I desire so greatly from my parents? The simple answer is, there is no hope. Recognition is a thing for grade school children and Eighty year old retiree's. If I have to work Fourty years at a job I hate in order to recieve recognition from someone who has long been dead, than forget it. I"d rather work for myself, with no real career path, than slave away for the rest of my life, and getting nothing for it. Money serves no real purpose in my life, it is an end to the means, or however that goes. i want a promise that my deeds will not go unoticed, that my life will not be wasted by working everyday only to get a dinner and a certificate stating i can now retire and do what I really want for the last 10 years of my life.
So next time you are given a hard time about what you are going to do with your life, or next time you are feeling bad because you dont know. Just remember...none of us have any idea what we want in life, except for that one simple thing...to be noticed....Goodnight everyone
