A sailboat across a sea of doubts

Hello there,
I had this late night dinner with three of my friends here and we had a deep discussion on loads of topics. Lecturers to OHP's (those things where you can put a clear plastic paper and write shit on and project the image). From annoying relatives to future pursuits.

I love having intense conversations with a small group of people. They are very enlightening. You learn a lot about people and what they know and vice versa. You just sit down and pour your heart and your mind out in the open and letting it flood the people around you and we'll all drown in the depth of our conversation until we can't recall any concept of time. Hahaha, that was a crazy bunch of words. I absolutely love it.

Anyway, as we were talking about university life, lectures and lecturers, dismal CGPA and studying last minute (two things that may correlate), we got to the topic on how the people around us keep pushing us down just because we happened to take biology as our field of study.

God, i can't tell you how much flack we get from it. We all shared the same feeling. My brother once wondered what would i be after my studies. A teacher, he implied. I could give half a fuck anyhow, i know i can be more than half of the things he could imagined (not that a teacher's occupation is a degrading one, i always wanted to be an English/Science teacher)

And my guys all share the same nasty experience. A pesky uncle who just so happened to have 4 perfect children, all in the, what I would say, the big bucks fields i.e doctors, engineers, lawyers, business etc, to misunderstood grandparents who thinks industrial biology means working down an assembly line at a factory.

We get it, biology may not have such flare as those bigshot courses, but give us a break. We don't need any more doubt or condescending thoughts, we get enough from our own selves. And to add insult to injury, some of....well... most of the kids here are not really into biology, they had to take what they got so cut them some slack.

I seem to be not only the only guy but the only person who went into this field of study without a hint of desperation or a tinge of regret. I was like " lmma gonna own this biological shit" since day one and the all of the guys are still regretting or doubting their decision. Well, i can't really blame them, i would be a little bummed out if i got something i didn't like. But hell, don't you guys have some forethought on where your strength lies? I knew from day 1 that i was smart and passionate enough for a science course but not so much so to go into the medical field. So i went and aimed low and high at the same time.

I won't say that i am perfect, i know everything i want to do for the next ten years blablabla. I don't. I just know i should follow my instinct and it says if i want something i should go and get it or i would have to learn to swallow the life of regret if i don't chase my dreams. Simple. I know life is shit and we don't always get what we want, not everybody is as lucky as you, Randy. Yeah, i get that. So make do with what you have and roll with it. We can't stay and mope around. Time's a'wasting. Pick your self up and prove to those motherfuckers that greatness is written for us. It goads us, beckons us to grab it. So go and fucking do it.

Wow, i should be a motivator. Hahaha. One time someone asked me where i get this fiery zeal to motivate. I told them i get down most of the time and i had to learn to motivate myself into doing and being something more than myself.

All in all, i just hope for the people that surround students that take obscure and often very mundane fields of study to cut them some slack. They are having a hard time, stop trying to cut them down to size and feed them to the hounds of absent futures. Even i get a little bummed out and i actually want to learn biology.

And to the ones being chopped, stop them from doing so, goddammit! We have a sovereign duty to acquire success and rub it in the faces of those who dare doubt us! We ain't gonna take shit from no one! Hold your heads high and kick some ass, people! Peace out, bitches.