If you stay in Larissa, you will find peace. You will find a wonderful woman, and you will have sons and daughters, who will have children. And they'll all love you and remember your name. But when your children are dead, and their children after them, your name will be forgotten... If you go to Troy, glory will be yours. They will write stories about your victories in thousands of years! And the world will remember your name. But if you go to Troy, you will never come back... for your glory walks hand-in-hand with your doom. And I shall never see you again.

Doesn't everyone want to do something? Who wants to be forgotten? Does anyone want not to be remembered?
I talk to people every now and then, as most do, and have come to the conclusion that everyone wants to 'do something'. How specific. Some want to be doctors, some want to be doctors that go to places of the world that are in awful condition and help make things better. Some want to be politicians. Some want to solve the world's political problems and create world peace. OK. Great. Something will happen eventually. Never underestimate the power of the people of the world to do something. I'm not saying it will be a good change necessarily, but in the general trend of things in general, they usually improve. We will keep on truckin. I guess I am looking at two types of the same genre of question.

The first is the what do you want to do question. well, I'm not sure but, like everyone else I want to do something that will make an impact on the world and on people. I want my life to mean something, I want to look back on my life from my obviously present perfect in every way after life retirement home and see that my life made a difference in the scheme of the world. (The whole after life was a joke because I don't believe in it). Everyone does. Unfortunately, I think that our culture has a certain way that we think we can accomplish this goal. We call it school. Learning, and education. But isn't true that so many of the best inventions and breakthroughs in history were either by genetic anomaly created geniuses or by talented self-motivated people who had little uniform, school education. I think that if there were something I really wanted to do, something that could change the world and help people, getting and education is only postponing it. the only reason I would get an education, especially at my level, would be to get to a level where society deems it acceptable to do whatever it was I wanted to do. Wait a sec, no its not. I think there is a small part of that in it, but more than that, the education puts me at a position with more options. If I wanted to help people in a poor country and i just got out of high school, eventually I could do something like join the Peace Corps. Or if I wanted to help people I could become a doctor, make some money, then go spend all of my life's savings to build a hospital in the middle of a poverty stricken nation and help like that too. the thing is, many of the doors that I could take now stay open and increase in number as I learn more and increase my abilities.

I don't remember the second part of where I was going with this. I'm a little sleepy. So ill just keep going with what I was saying. If i became a doctor, I could still be in the peace corps and do the same thing that I could have done 12 years earlier. That would be a waste of talent though. A waste of me. The more I learn, the more responsibility I feel i have to put it to use in some method. Not just school learning, life learning. When.........nope lost it.

In conclusion, I want to do something, Now. I want some friends to comment and tell me what it is they want to do, and lets do something about it now. Lets feed people without food. Lets help kids in trouble with their families, lets do something while we learn. Just schooling is a waste of us. Yeah, I want to do something to be remembered, but it is more important not to waste myself on me. That is what far too many self-richeous self-centered college kids sit around doing all day long. Two hours at a soup kitchen or shelter a week really isn't that much. Stop wasting your lives. if the human race is ever going to survive, we need to help each other.

Just remembered the second part. If you really think about it, what is THE most pragmatic profession or study to get involved with? In my opinion it is the one that will help us better understand ourselves and our world. It's called science folks and I believe its the only thing that can save us. Even if we do stop the global warming we have caused, there could be another gigantic volcano explosion and we could go into another ice age. Its only going to be the scientists who expect, predict and forecast this. The engineers are going to have to come up with a way for us to survive off of alternative energy and other things. You get my drift. i need to sleep. I am really tired. Comment and help me develop something. I've said things really really generally.