Procrastination
Maybe I should study for my midterm that will comprise 20% of my grade.Or, maybe I should work on my application that I need to send in tomorrow.
Pft, naaa. It's only 1 A.M. No big deal!
This application will be for going abroad to Brussels and getting some good experience with the European Parliament.
It sounds really awesome and I can't wait! Hopefully I'll be accepted.
Writing the application for this makes me think more about the field I want to go into and why I want to do it.
After doing a couple of years of broadcast journalism intensely, I've realized that it's not really the field for me. Not that there is anything wrong with it. I give high regard to journalists that take their careers seriously and report for the benefit of the people that they call their audience. They are the gatekeepers of information, making it one of the most important jobs out of any occupation in the world.
However, I'm more drawn to the legal changes that can be made. The resolutions, the policies, the declarations, all of that jazz. It's right up my alley, it's everything I want. I want to write, implement, revise, lobby, and create the change that I really want to see happen in this world.
I know this sounds like a typical rant by a college student. The type that's all empty talk with no real idea of what they're talking about. I know I have much to learn, but I know how far I have come and appreciate every bit of knowledge about multiple issues I have learned over the years.
It's the need to do something bigger and more for the people that I coexist with in this world. It's not enough to talk about it. I want to do it. I don't want to just sit pretty on the television screen and let everyone understand what's going on. I want it to not have to be a reality to them because we're working on policies to make it better. I want to give back to the world and the people in it because they have given so much to me.
