Why Life is Worth Living

Caught in the mire of the daily grind we all too often overlook the sweet little things that make life worth living in the first place. I think that it is our inherent tendency, as human beings, to speed life up and look ahead to the better times in our future. But as I age, I have begun to wonder- what if those "better times" never come? What if, for the rest of my life, I am treading water, wading waist-deep in a stressful life that I want absolutely nothing to do with? What do I do then? Was all this struggle just a waste of time?

My religious opinions sway with the wind, but I very skeptical of an enjoyable afterlife. All we have is the here and now- and if I am focusing on my future all the time, what is to become of my present? My college years are supposed to be the best times of my life. As of right now, I am enjoying none of my time spent in school- I start every Monday by looking forward to heading back home on Friday.

I just do not have the patience for the life of a student- I want it all right now, or I want nothing. Call it childish, but I am certain the majority of my generation thinks this way. Raised on Cd's, laptops, I-pods, and cosmetic surgery, we know the whole world is just out of our reach, but we refuse to work hard to get what we want. We are not our fathers' sons- we will not live and die for a cause, we will not commit ourselves to an idea, and we sure as hell will not accept anyone else's plan of how we should live our lives. I am just afraid that when I die, my peers will realize that I lived for nothing. My whole life was in anticipation of a utopia that I never arrived at... and I squandered all the potential that was given to me without wasting a thought on how valuable it really was.