You can do anything you want….
Last week I was watching one of the new comedies on NBC called “Community”. The general premise is about a narcissistic Lawyer who gets his degree from Columbia… the country not the University. He finds himself having to go back to school at a stereotypical community college in attempt to save his career. The show is pretty funny and although greatly exaggerated captures the spirit of the community college experience. It particularly hits home to me because of my recent personal journey down the rabbit hole of academia. Probably intentionally, the message of the show is more about life lessons than anything to do with practical application of academic theories, which is what my experience is turning into as well.
Last week there was a line where one of the characters says to the lead (who is struggling with his new identity):
“you can do anything you want, you just have to know what that is”.
It was just a quick part of the dialogue that I don’t think was intended to be dwelled upon but it really made me think. I don’t always know what I want to be doing, and sometimes I know what I’m doing isn’t what I want. Yes, I’m starting to sound like Donald Rumsfeld. But anyway, is it really that simple? Pick what you want to do and you can do it? If I take into account how much my life resembles a sitcom, I think this statement might have some truth to it.
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