I Find It Funny.

Adults seem to think they know it all. No adults I've met, however, are perfect. Many adults I've come into contact with are ridiculously closed-minded. I haven't even spent half a year in college, and I've already learned so much. Most adults are strict about their views, and the likelihood of them changing them are slim to none. There is a lot I've learned so far about the behavior of individuals, and quite honestly--I've made it my goal to do the exact opposite. I am eighteen years old, no more...no less. And let me tell ya, gladly, what I've learned: I don't know everything. I never have, and I never will. In fact, I know very little! But you know what I learned in my psychology class? A person's long term memory has NO limit to what it can hold. So I have every intention to continue to learn, throughout the remainder of my life. You know what else I've learned in my short eighteen years? Judgment gets you nowhere. You can analyze a person, write them off as someone that isn't worth your time, but all you're accomplishing is cutting yourself off from a world of opportunities. I may not know why we were put on this earth, but I'm fairly certain it wasn't to judge others. Isn't that God's job? I've also learned that money and material items don't really matter! I've learned to take life in as it comes, because if you don't, you miss the beauty of the world you're speeding by. I've learned that no tribulation lasts forever, and that hope never really runs out--we just get tired and frustrated that it's not working out for us. I've learned the importance of letting your inner child out every now and then--I color. A lot. I've learned that when it comes down to it, you really need to do what's best for you. For so long I wanted to do what was best for everyone else, but with a life like that you'll soon realize there is no one else looking out for you. That's something you have to do for yourself, and it's necessary for you to enjoy your life. I've learned that the things we tend to freak out over really don't deserve the attention we give them, and some of the nonsense we take so seriously isn't even worth the time of day. I've learned that each day is full of something purely beautiful, and with each passing day you should find something new to be thankful for. If you do this, you'll soon realize that the bad in your life is actually something to be thankful for, because without the bad--the good isn't nearly as good. I've learned the importance of friends, especially the good ones. But I've also learned that if your friends are causing more trouble in your life than they are helping then get rid of them. If they do something wrong, and you let them know, and they do nothing to make it better--get rid of them. When it comes to friends, sometimes it's best to have the attitude of a little kid--everyone's your friend until they steal your crayons. I find it funny (brilliant use of the title in the blog itself, right there.) that adults are so condescending to little kids...they're the ones that have life figured out. But we make them grow up and we tell them they're wrong. We tell them the world is a harsh place, and not everyone is going to be your friend. We tell them they can't really do anything, there are limitations. We tell them all these fixed notions society instills in us...but we're lying. The priorities of a little kid are no different than those of a successful adult. They do their school work when they have to, get their homework done, and devote the rest of the time to playing and being happy. Now replace school with work and where's the difference? I think--and this is purely an opinion--that adults are only so serious and boring because they're expected to be. You can still have the fun of a kid and retain the responsibility of an adult! And I guarantee you you'll have more fun living that way than you will problems because you're "socially unacceptable." College is a great experience, I'm not going to lie. I mean sure, I had some of these basic perceptions before I came here. But being in this environment intensifies my views and gives me the confidence to argue them. And maybe the greatest thing I've realized since I started college is the fact that I really do have nothing but opportunity ahead of me. I can't see my future, I have no clue what I'm going to do. I do know one thing though--I'll be able to do anything. That is really one of the most amazing things I've realized. I'm beginning to wonder if I'm the only one that realizes the standards society sets aren't mandatory. I wonder if anyone else sees that everything people are so worried about--money, success, advancement--and literally every other event in life is entirely relative. The meaning of it all changes from one person to the other. Simply put? We control our lives. We control the way we react, we control the way we prioritize things in our lives, we determine what is/isn't important, and furthermore...we ourselves get to decide what success is to us, what a sufficient amount of money is to us, what position is good for us. We focus so much of our times on working ourselves to death that we lost track of the point of LIVING. We get so competitive we forget about that inner kid, sometimes we even forget about the existing loved ones in our lives. Something that I was taught when I first stepped into my English class was not to accept anything. Nothing is definite, and we get to decide what is/isn't in our world. Challenge everything! That valuable life lesson is something I'll carry with me forever...and by far something that everyone should be taught. There is nothing we can't achieve, no problem we can't surpass, there is NO such thing as impossible. It doesn't exist. We hold the world in our hands, each of us. We decide how we see it, we decide our role in it, we decide what it is. And that...that's really something. I'd like to conclude this post by reiterating the fact that I don't know everything. But I do know everything that I've expressed, and it's truth, in my life. You'll have to decide things for yourself...but as for me, I have a lot of knowledge with me...and nothing but room for more. I find it funny that we limit ourselves, when we each have to potential to be amazing.