Logan Miller
Essay 5:
Adventure (My choosing)
I
believe that people get adventure all wrong. They get caught up making the
wrong things their adventure. Whether its work or school, superficial means
become and end to some individuals. It baffles me how previous generations were
ok their children, “Just get a steady job and work to live.” the idea is to
fuel your passion with your 9-5. While I agree stability is crucial when
raising family and providing for other people, why are more young people not
taking time of to go hiking, why are they not taking advantage of their youth
to travel and appreciate the natural world for what it is. I believe it comes
down to the purpose of their ‘adventure’. Growing up, I was told to do well in
elementary school so when middle school rolled around I’d be goo to go, and
when I was in middle school I had to do well to kill it in high school. Finally
high school was the step before college so I really had to do well. Now that I
am in college its, “do well so you get a good job.” I currently have a very
good job offer as a result of an internship and to be honest, I have no desire
to do it, but people look at me like I am crazy. My point is that once you get
that job, why do you “do well” at that point? Is it to make more money? Well
knowing what I know from studying business management, often money is not the
best way of incentivizing performance. Children are handed superficial “why’s”
throughout their childhood and growing up, so they don’t really learn with the
purpose of bettering themselves to that they can be a better person, it is
because they want to check the box and get on to the next stage. This often
leads to many college graduates hating their jobs and lacking a sense of
purpose. Life should be an adventure and we should teach children that. I
believe that adventures require hard work! And if we instruct that and tell
children that the purpose of the adventure is to get to middle school, I
predict they will be very disappointed. But if we accurately describe life with
its difficulties and challenges and rewards as if they were an adventure, I
believe superficially children will learn to not sweat the unimportant things,
but also I think that they will learn to pursue purpose with passion and in a
healthy manner, minimizing risk. In the end, a world that pursues purpose in a
positive light is a happier world and much more sound in its ability to trust
its constituents.
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