Philosophy and The Typical Student (Pre, Present, Post—College)--Allison McCullough, Post 2

Two years ago, I thought I couldn’t be happier with my life in where I was.  My boyfriend was “perfect,” my major was just what I wanted to do with my life and the people that were my best friends I wouldn’t trade the world for.  If I could go back and do it all over again, I would re-evaluate everything I ever did.  For instance, my boyfriend cheated on me, I changed my major twice and I figured out that best friends weren’t really my true friends at all.  

It’s funny how you get caught up in the moment (especially in college) with what you are doing and who seems to be cool and interesting.  Sometimes I wish I could smack myself in the face for the things that I had done.  I’m sure two years from now, I will want to do the same thing.  I don’t really understand that sometimes you’re supposed to live for the moment, but most of the time, that’s not the right choice.  

Even though I say that sometimes it’s important to go through these experiences to learn what you do now so that you don’t make the same mistake again.  So I wouldn’t change anything in the world now?  

I will say that a lot of people have individually impacted my life and changed it in a positive way that I really don’t think anybody ever would.  One of the very first people I met in college became my very best friend from the start.  I will say that I’m not the most positive person within the whole deck of cards; however, progressively over time, I’ve actually read numerous books on how to be positive (stupid it seems).  It’s truly impacted my life and has taken my perception of life a whole different way. The only way I would have ever know this is by meeting my very best friend.

They say the best way of marketing is verbal mouth to mouth advertising.  It’s because everyone listens to each other and would much rather take a person’s advice rather than a computers.  It’s much more believable and trustworthy (so we think and believe)  This has something I have grown fond of.  I want to say that I have found myself in college, but I really don’t think I have appreciated this concept until now and until we started discussing it until now.  

You have to think about what you want to do with your life and where you want to go.  People always say what are your goals?  Well what are they?  How do you respond?  Do you respond with “to be successful”, “to make 100,000 dollars a year” because this is how everyone answers this questions.  Your answer needs to be different and I never took the concept and applied it to my life.  Think about it.