theBlogOfAlright

Life is like 18 holes of golf. You walk through the fairway like you walk through life; enjoying the scenery while you go about carrying out the miserable duties set out. When you make par you congratulate yourself, and when you make eagle you congratulate yourself better. You go from hole to hole, fairway to fairway not necessarily understanding or knowing the grandiose of your actions or of purpose but you go about anyway since that's what ought to be done while on course. Certainly you can play the game they way you wish, as slowly or quickly as one should desire, but those that were before you and those that come after may frown upon the unconformity. Nevertheless, you know where you start and how it ends, how it's played and what's expected, but I suppose what really matters is how much really enjoyed your stay, for 18 holes.

Not often is one able to truly start over, to really sit and reflect on one's life and the future -- especially how one wants their life to play out. Some are absolutely lost when asked the question: what is it that you want? We may have become the culmination of ideologies and expectations of our past influencers: the media, our friends, family, idols, teachers, mentors -- the ones we care about the most. Our thoughts may not even be ours any more. We may have spent such a long time carrying out someone else's expectations of us, who we ought to be and what we should be doing , that we fail to seek our own wants and needs and carry them out for our self-actualization. We get lost in this flurry of expectations, and perhaps our self-imposed responsibility to others, and never get a chance or even have thought about asking what is it that I want for my life? what is it that  I  want for my future? How do I want my life to play out? Yet, the question is almost vital to findi