Thoughts of a soon-to-be graduate!
Dear god, it’s me. With the world developing, technology progressing, populations increasing,opportunities decreasing, traffic getting insane, and way more advancements than the middle ages, I ask you to grant us more time, more cash, and more jobs. Thanks!
Our lifestyles have already proven to be changing from busy to busier and there is no way we stop now. But why not stretch our days to 28, or even better, 30 hours? Scientists of the world, I call for a meeting! Today is about time for us humans to reconsider our whole time scale, because what the hell am I supposed to accomplish in 24 hours? Then the usual cloud pops up, rains on my troubled skull, and evilly laughs at me. We all know that regardless how many hours we get, WE WILL STILL BOOK THEM ALL! So you see, it’ll stay pretty much the same, more to-dos in less and less time.
This is just how we are and it’s no different than the shit we do with our pays. Most people handle their personal finance in a way that just drives me thinking, why bother from the first place? We work our asses off to make more money,to buy more stuff, and stay in debt most of our lives. We find little contentment in what we can actually afford. The everyday Longchamp Pliage that was once good enough, had to have the MK, and is now screaming for the Hermes! Is this how it’s going to be for the coming 30-40 years of my life? Will I continue to misspend life so I can misspend cash? With more commitments and bigger responsibilities on their way, I’d guess, probably!
I envy those with simple lives. No, not the Hilton/Richie simplicity, but more of the lets-quit-everything-and-move-to-Sinai life. When I started college, I remember that the first and possibly only advice I got was “intern every summer,parallel school with part-time work, network, volunteer, double major, then you’d have proper experience by the time you graduate” and I did. Four years now, and I’ve been pushing myself like the end of the world is sticking to its 2012 word. I can go on and on about this, so let me just sum it up in one statement: The longest vacation I’ve had since I started college, are the 18 days of the revolution. Yup.
Now I’m few weeks away from my bachelors and these are, exclusively, the two reactions I get whenever anyone hears I’m graduating. 1) Oh habebti! This is such a tough time for your generation, how are you gonna get decent jobs with the revolution and the economy and all! 2) Yalla, mesh hatetgawezy ba2a?
No! This is not what I had in mind for my final month of school. I wanted to walk out of that very last exam room looking forward to life, to what’s yet to cross my path, not to economic decline and marriage pressure! I’ve come a long way and those four years have witnessed me evolve into someone different. For the better I hope.
To all of you graduates of 2012, I hereby congratulate you! We are stepping into a new phase, a phase of suits, conference calls, and financial independency (if we do manage to get a job of course).This is your moment. The starting point. Fight the cynics and get all excited for this! You have earned the right to dream big, so go ahead and live bigger!
