When I was six the most important thing in the world for me was to get a pair of those shoes that light up when you walk….they were the coolest fucking thing in the world. For whatever reason my mom would always buy me hiking boots and replace the shoe laces with ninja turtle laces to make up for it…but that never worked as I was always teased because all the other little asshole kids lit up when they walked, ran, or jumped…and my shoes didn’t do shit but got made fun of. Over the years my priorities have changed and my taste for footwear has outgrown the Kmart light up shoes special. In eighth grade the most important thing was for me to stand out from my peers, by freshman year at South Mountain High School I just wanted to fit in. My highest priority senior year in high school wasn’t to get into college or get a scholarship, but to lose weight so the girl of my dreams would fall in love with me…which I don’t think worked but I still love you Ms. Meyers. Priorities are constantly changing if we are striving for bigger and better things and we should never be content with who we are or what we can do.
My highest priority right now, and for the next 4 years is the doctoral program for physical therapy and I’ll do whatever it takes to get there. I’d like to say I didn’t waste the 2004-2009 but it definitely wasn’t the most productive goal-oriented years of my life... While I had goals, those really don’t mean shit now. Where most people go wrong is when they hold themselves back by allowing short term asinine tasks hinder their progress to achieve long term goals and ultimately overshadow their priorities. While we can’t stay on task 100% of the time, we can’t allow the majority of our time to be wasted on short term unimportant successes. You want to become a doctor? Well what are you doing now to help yourself get there?
- Are you playing beer pong or some other fucktard kind of drinking game four nights a week?
- Are you taking 5 elective classes in one semester, including MUS 354: the Beatles?
- Did you decide to skip your homework for the night to go watch some weak ass probate?
If you answered yes to any of these things, you probably won’t like the end result of your academic career…and you have to stop playing flippy cup and kings…drinking isn’t suppose to be fun with friends….it’s supposed to be depressing and lonely...
