Today I was told “the problem” with our generation is that we live for the experience. Here’s my issue with that. Doesn’t everyone?? Do you really go to college, spend hundreds and thousands of dollars just to sit and read that old textbook from 1981?? Do you sit through boring classes and lectures to just get a job sitting in a cubicle 9-5? No. Do you want to grow old and not be able to look back and smile because of the crazy/reckless memories you made? Because what kind of life is it if you don’t have moments of pure-bliss happiness, I’ll tell you, it’s not one I want to live. That’s for sure.
We’ve all heard the cliché saying “live in the moment”. I never realized truly how important that statement is. I’ve now been through a few years of college and I’m now realizing what that really means. College goes so incredibly fast. And although I am nowhere near ready to leave, I can look back and appreciate all of the crazy things I’ve done. I know for a fact I won’t look back and remember the awesome lecture given by one of my professors, nor will I look back and remember my group presentation I gave freshman year. But what I will remember is the laughter created with my friends, the nights we should have studied, but instead stayed up watching scary movies all night. I won’t remember the nights I got 10 hours of sleep.. But those where I got way way less. You see, it’s not so bad to “Live in the moment”. You should try it sometime.
