The Day To... Stop Worrying

It was the great Ferris Bueller that once said:

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

… I think it was him that said it, anyway. I’m not sure if it was specifically him, but I know it’s from the movie. I haven’t actually seen Ferris Bueller’s Day Off yet, but I do own it on DVD, so I will get round to it one day… If you have seen it, how good is it? Is it worth it?

Sorry. Anyway the point is that I like the quote, and I like it because it’s true.

The thing is, like Ferris, I’m a student. And as a student (in my last year, nonetheless), I’ve been having an awful lot of people lately asking me the same question.

“What are you going to do when you’ve finished?”

The answer to that question, honestly, is that I don’t know; and that doesn’t go down too well with many people (especially the older generation, who usually think of students as drunken tax dodging hooligans and then assume that I’ve just been having a good time the last three years). Sure, I could make up some crap about how I want to be a teacher, or I’m going to do a Master’s degree, or I just want to settle down and have kids and maybe take a work from home course in Child Psychology or Bookkeeping & Accounts like the advert says. I’m not calling it crap because I don’t want to do any of those things; I just genuinely don’t know what I want to do.

And to be honest again, that doesn’t worry me.

Just because I don’t know where my ultimate destination is, it doesn’t mean I don’t have any direction. Even though I don’t know where life is taking me yet, I’m just enjoying the journey; and from what happens in that time and the paths that my life takes, that’s how and when I’ll decide what I want to do. Not because I feel the pressure on me to make a decision, and certainly not because

This video puts it pretty perfectly. Life is like a music composition. You don’t listen to music to hear the first and last note, you listen to it for the in between. For the ups and downs, for the crescendos, for the quiet notes that build and build and build into something spectacular.

Sometimes you just need to stop thinking about the destination and enjoy the journey. Don’t let the in between parts pass you by.

: )