Thursday, January 11, 2007

Peace Corps Introduction

I graduated from college and had this huge thought lingering over me which was, "What do I want to go with the rest of my life?" It seems like some kind of thing that begins at movie you go to see in a theater, but instead this is real life with real actions and things can't be rewritten after they are done and realize that they suck. So instead of trying to get a job that I might actually hate, I decided to do something unconventional and really unexpected, I decided to join the Peace Corps. I thought man wouldn't it be good to do something that I actual want to do in my life instead of doing what others expect of me. To take control of my own life and destiny and do something that will make me a better person in life and help others in the process. So I decided all of this the last week of dead week at school. I just left my last class I would ever attend at a university in awhile and then procided to walk over to the Peace Corps building, grab a Peace Corps application. It seems all to weird to actually be true because don't most college kids have a plan for what they want to do when they leave college and yes most do, but how much percentage of their plans or dreams actually come true and then that is the reason why I wanted to join for. I know that I may no get to do what I want to do in the real world or even be able to enjoy what I would do in the real world, so I got the application put it in my backpack, walked home opened my backpack and started to fill out the forms like a madman bent on some mission and to some destination that he had no idea where it would lead. I filled it out in the hope that I would get accepted and the pure faith that I could do something that I had wanted to do all along, but never been able to do. Just some dream that I put into the back of my mind. I was doing what I wanted to do with my life and not caring about what would happend if I didn't get in because that was not an option of even an afterthought in my mind because I somehow had this feeling deep down that this was what I was suppose to do with my life even if it ment 2 years or longer because I was suppose to do this.

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