By definition of the word “do” means “perform an action” or “achieve or complete,” according to Google. Every day every single one of us does something. But why?
Every morning we are all faced with choices. The first choice everyone makes is whether or not to get out of bed. Sometimes it is tempting to just stay in bed where it's warm and safe, but most people peel themselves out of bed. Why is that, when staying in bed is easier than leaving it? Although it is easier, it's also a lot less exciting. We get out of our beds and go into the real world where there are other people and a lot more things to do. If we all stayed in bed all day, we would be missing out on an awful lot.
After getting out of bed, you are faced with many more choices: Do I eat breakfast or no? Do I go to class or skip it? Do I try hard at practice or half ass it? The list could go on for five miles. If you decide to get breakfast, you then decide what to eat. If you go to class, you decide whether or not to pay attention. If you don’t try hard at practice, why do you bother going at all? Better yet, why do you do that sport if you really don’t want to be there?
We do some things because we like them, while we do other things because we feel like we have to, whether it’s societal pressures or parental control or peer pressure.
I made the decision to swim in college on my own, for example. My parents didn’t force me to do it; I did it simply because I wanted to. I love swimming, and I love being on a team because the other girls are like my second family. If I didn’t want to swim, I wouldn’t. I’m never going to the Olympics and I won’t be swimming much beyond college, but the experiences and memories will stay with me for a lifetime, and I made a lot of friends.
I decided to write for Odyssey because I liked how you had a lot of freedom to write about what you wanted and because I just love to write. I thought that writing for a platform would force me to keep writing and that writing more would make me a better writer in the long run. While I have been writing weekly articles since the beginning of April, I am not fond of all of them. Even if, some weeks, I can’t seem to come up with any good ideas to write about or don’t like my article, I keep on writing anyway because I enjoy doing it. I forget about my concerns of whether or not what I write is good, and I do it without caring about public opinion. I write for myself. Why should it matter if person A or person B likes my writing or not? Why should the amount of likes or shares I get matter?
These are just a couple examples of why I do what I do. Why do you do what you do?
