Tuesday, June 14, 2011

The Personal Legend.

    I've been wondering, lately, what I really want to do with my life this blog. I suppose I haven't figured it out yet.

       I know that I love to write. Sometimes a single line, usually an overly long rant about my views on certain things. I decided to follow the second approach this time.

      I have many ambitions. Read as many books as I can. Travel. Write. Be. Obviously, all of that has to wait. Why, you might ask. Well, life occurred and life is a bitch. I, you see, must not think about my dreams, ambitions and such. I should, instead, focus on something much more... beneficial, I suppose. This isn't the easiest time. Considering the fact that I'm from Greece, this is a pretty fucked up time. Yet, all is too easy now. We don't have to fight for anything. Anything substantial, anyway. We are all just passive observers of our lives, watching them pass before our very eyes, unable to do anything, while they are being regulated by others.

    My dad wants me to become a lawyer. Or a teacher. A secure job with a good salary. I told him I wanted to become an architect. He said that I should go to MIT for further studies after getting my college degree. I then decided that my "Personal Myth" wasn't to become an architect, but a writer. Of course, aside from my mother's and friends' immense support, the general reaction to my decision was slight disappointment. Because me, the best student in my class, could do so much better.

   Who are these people, though, to make decisions on my behalf? After reading "Siddhartha"by Herman Hesse, and "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho, two books that changed my life, I realized that sometimes you should follow your "Personal Legend" and that every action -pointless as it seems- leads you to achieve understanding.

   So, I don't give a shit if my salary won't be impressive enough, or if I'll never get a promotion, or if I royally screw up as a writer. At the end of the day, I will know that I have pursued my "Personal Legend".