Friday, February 20th, 2009
Last year, I remember taking the easy (and lazy) route with my education. I thought everything would work better if I just settled down and took a nice relaxing ride. Now, I don’t think that’s such a good idea.
Why the sudden change of heart?
I realised that last year I wasted some of my life by lazing about. By not challenging myself. I used to challenge myself all the time, from taking on hard and complicated art projects to leading in the creation of a 100+ page school website project. Those where the days. But I, on my high horse, thought that I should settle down instead of galloping further into my education.
Compared to all the other Web Design & Development students in my year, I feel I’m really the only one that truly wants to enter the field. Others want to go into more art or design areas while others want to change completely. I picked my course because of my passion, and somewhere I let that slip away–perhaps complaining how my teachers taught bad information or those who just taught badly.
What truly defines us is what we leave behind. Right now, my footprint isn’t even noticeable. But I have strive, renewed by a sense of purpose and the desire to show people what I’m made off.
Soon, we’re getting off of the slow roads. Wanna have an adventure?
It’s not what you learn (good or bad), it’s how you respond to that and what you do with it that counts. Pretty much no knowledge is not worth knowing and even if you think you’re not getting good advice(maybe you think you know better), you’re getting an opinion anyway. How you respond to that opinion is where the pot of gold lies. It’s encouraging to hear someone in education going down this road of thought, it mostly happens a few months into “the real world” good on ya!
You use a word that’s very important to me in the web design field – “passion”, it’s a very important part of the equation next to talent, experience and ambition.
If you want any advice (or just my opinion on something), get in touch.
You’ve gotta make things happen, otherwise they’ll pass you by! I learned that the hard way with uni, now I’m trying it again but it’s a long hard road ahead.
The longest journey started with just a single step. Remember that!