It’s amazing how different perspectives can become, how different life can become, in such a short time. In the grand scheme of things, 10 years is not a terribly long time. I find it difficult to accept that 10 years ago today, I was 11 years old and heading back to 6th grade since Y2k did NOT bring about the destruction of life as we know it. Life consisted of going to school, coming home, going to movies on Friday nights, and reading a lot.
Fast forward to today: two days into my final quarter of college, a second childhood rapidly coming to an eagerly anticipated end. It’s a time of excitement, fear, and above all change. Changes within myself and the way I view the world, with the way I interact with the people around me. Changes in technology and opportunity.
Today I had a phone call with Adam Keats of Weber Shandwick’s Chicago office, and he asked me where I saw myself in five years. I replied that I hope to be working in an Agency setting, doing PR that means something. There are so many paths that I could see myself taking, however. Having taken the LSAT and gotten a 157, I could be in my first or second year of law school. Or I could be working on an M.S. in Public Relations and Strategic Corporate Communications somewhere. I could be in Chicago, or New York, or London, or Prague.
The not-knowing provides so much more excitement than knowing, and there’s a lot that I don’t know right now. As someone who nearly always has an answer, if not THE answer, this would typically cause a great deal of stress and anxiety. For whatever reason, right now it gives me comfort. It gives me hope.
Seth Godin had a great post yesterday about there being a surplus of fear and how he’d rather have a surplus of hope. I think I found some of his stockpiles.
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