The Swinglish Life: Where there's opposition, there's a possibility

We all have to start somewhere

I think I've been waiting for some kind of sign to tell me "you are now to start your blog. And this is what you are to accomplish with it:..."
Yeah, not so much. Although, I did have one of those moments where I thought 'today is the day' (as a chorus of angels singing filled my tiny dorm room, followed by a breeze sweeping through my window on cue, throwing my hair back Charlie's Angels style as a light falls on me). Or something like that. But I did in fact feel strangely motivated to just start. I didn't know what I would say and I still don't know what my goal is. Perhaps it will make itself apparent as time -days, months- go by. If it's anything like my imagination, what comes up will probably have no coherence; for a while. In the end everything will strangely find a way to tie itself together to produce a meaningful epiphany that sheds some tangible truth on the reality of who I am, and I hope others can relate.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Where there's opposition, there's a possibility

It’s unbelievably frustrating when people tell you you can’t do something that you love doing. Or, as in my situation, they respond to your major in college by saying, “Yeah, well then you know you want to find something that will actually give you a job.” Or, someone close to you says, “Well you won’t be able to afford one of those until you switch to biomedical engineering.” Well, I have news for you. If your comments aren’t motivation enough for me to continue with my current major then I simply have to say I can not bring myself to do these other fields. Not that they aren’t good fields, or that they’re not interesting. There’s nothing wrong with them, but these fields and I go together like a musician and a chemistry lab. It’s just not me, and not an area I would thrive in. My aspirations start somewhere else. And if I don’t know what I’m going to be, I at least know who I am and where I shouldn’t be.

Now that I’ve vented sufficiently I’m going to kick back with my Stieg Larsson book “Män som hatar kvinnor” (in English it is titled ”Girl with the dragon tattoo”) and get swept away for a while. The rest of the week is to be filled with hours shelving away books at my second home known as the library. Evenings: finalize my top two destinations/programs for a spring semester in Spain. Next week: guests from Sweden begin to arrive!