Figuring it out.
It sounds relatively simple, like a math equation or following the map to get to a destination.
However, in the words of young rock star Disney sensation Miley, 'It's the climb.'
We make the equation. We create the map.
Figuring it out-- who we are, what we believe, what we will stand for and aim for in this life. Priorities, careers, a love or two along the way.
At what point is what you stand for your own? This is it. Question and experience and wonder and become someone that you are proud of.
One way to do this is to maybe look at a few other road-maps. Who are people that you admire and want to emulate? It could be Paul Farmer, if you nerd out about public health like I do, or it could be that CA in your physics class who makes energy and force the most exciting thing ever. If that person you admire is physically around you, you are lucky! Talk to them, figure out what path they took in life-- did they study abroad? Take a class that changed them? Work in a hospital, school, or zoo? Maybe from taking that professor out for coffee or sidling up the courage to talk to someone in a field you might be interested-- you can borrow a couple of routes for your own life-map.
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Ten Cent Heroes are college students connected by common purpose, location, and time. Our purpose is to look at our environment, how we move from place to place, and our actions within the framework of alcohol use or nonuse. Our location is Iowa and the time is now 2010.
Ten cents may not buy much anymore, but the choice is there to take what we have, and what we know, and save the day. The challenge is not just to survive, but thrive!
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