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January 21, 2008

What To Do With Life?

My dilemma is this...(see title, I'm too lazy to type it out again). Have you noticed the amount of movies and TV shows of single/30-year-old/Masters-totin'-guys who work meanial jobs because they don't know what to do? It apparently takes all the motivation they have to return to work again after a night of drinking or Halo 3, given the situation. Examples would include, but not be limited to Seth Rogen in Knocked Up, the new NBC comedy 'Chuck,' the boys of The Darjeeling Limited, CBS' The Big Bang Theory, oh, might as well mention Zack Braff from Scrubs. All of these guys, or man-childs if you will, have in common one thing...they don't know what to do with themselves. They go to work, for many of them a 'big box' type store and hate what life has handed them. They don't know where to go in life, so they don't do anything. That's right, they, (and I), are having a 'quaterlife crisis'. I wonder if the problem is too much optimism? Could it be that we've received all this education and are now prepared to make big things happen, and they don't, so we just settle? We're now prepared to do the unthinkable, the unimaginable? But it's not happening. We live in America where "dreams come true," right? The unfortunate thing is, they don't. Dreams don't come true. Should I simply accept smashing my 'end of the rainbow' dreams and move on to a "normal" job? I don't want to do that, but my dreams are pretty lofty. I admit that my ultimate dream would be to get an acting job and eventually be in the company of Phillip Seymore Hoffman, Charlize Theron, and Brad Pitt. That won't happen. I have another dream involving screen writing an incredible TV show. Impossible? Maybe not so much, but, maybe not so not...get it?
It's like I'm at the edge of the cliff...do I jump towards these dreams, or officially turn from them and go towards the more sensable route? I don't know. I think that's where the inspiration for many of these shows come from. We've set outselves up for huge endings that probably are not probable...so now what?
We put a lot of emphasis on college and getting grades, filling resumes, and interning...to get a desk job? Yikes. God, take me now. I guess that's where I'm at with this whole finding a real job thing. I want one that makes a difference...not just a healthy bank account.
We also hold the '30 is the new 20' ideal to our hearts tightly, therefore, it takes 8 years, or 10 or 12, to get where we need to go. It's easier to be settled with an object, like, say an ipod, or Nintendo Wii, or whatever you fancy, than to head in a specific direction, be that a job or a relationship that leads to marriage. Although I'm not as settled with the whole not-being-married thing as I am the job.
I'm just not sure what the Hell I want to jump full abandon into. Any suggestions? My itunes account is as playlisted as it could possibly be...getting bored.

| By Nathan Gemayel | 7:46 PM

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Posted by: Heidi H. at January 21, 2008 11:10 PM

Posted by: Nathan Gemayel at January 21, 2008 11:19 PM

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