So the major thought: How do I want to be remembered when I'm gone?
Most people would want to be remembered for being something great. Me I want to be remembered for doing something great. I don't want to be this great person, who everyone else wants to be. I want to make and impact. I enjoy helping others. There is no other joy I love more than fighting someone else's cause. It is so hard for me to stand up for myself, but I have no problem standing up for someone else.
How does this correlate into what I see in my future? I can always contribute to charities, but honestly, I really want to work for a non-profit, or start my own. But which one or for what? I'm flirting with the idea of going back to college and if I select the school closest to me, Davidson College, then I'll have to chose something other than a business major. My mom says with all my green living and eco-friendly ways, that I should chose environmental engineering. This triggered another thought.
What social culture do I belong to?
My father always said I was a hippie. Do I believe that? Well let's look at why he may have thought that and why I feel I go against it.
Reason one for his case: I wore/still wear ratty bell-bottom jeans. Sure we call them flared now, but they are bell-bottoms. And yes, that is a good reason.
Reason one for my case: I like personal hygiene. Sure I may be able to go 5 days between shaving my legs at times, but that's only in the winter and I always shave my under arms.
Reason two for his case: I wear Birkenstocks. They are comfy and come in so many different styles. My favs Arizonas and Bostons in mocha suede.
Reason two for my case: I don't enjoy living with multiple people with who I'm not related.
Reason three for his case: While I never say I am perfect in all morality, and I am but a human who is fallible. I may have partook in some drug use in my past, but why is that only indicative of hippies? Most sub-cultures have drug use.
Reason three for my case: I do not, nor have I ever driven an eco-friendly car. I like SUVs. I like power. I want my muffler to have a throaty bwah, to it. I'm a tall person, and I have two dogs over 50 lbs. Ok, so Mya is 50 lbs, but Daisy is almost 80! I would love to have a Hybrid Tahoe or Yukon, but I have a Denali. It has a 6.0 V8 and it gets less than 17 MPG. And I have to put PREMIUM in it. Sure if I could fit, I'd love a Prius type vehicle, granted the Prius just gets good MPG because it's only Hybrid up to 6MPH. The Chevy Volt would be an awesome car if I owned a house or townhouse with a garage. I feel this reason is the highest of all, because it's my last case.
I eat organic, local, and grassfed. I don't eat much red meat, or meat at all. I could live on fruit. Get my protein from soy milk and Chobani yogurt. I eat 3 big things of bananas a week, usually 3-4 bananas a day.
Maybe I am a modern day, eco hippie, non-conformist who doesn't partake in drugs. But I don't believe in free love and multiple partner marriages and families. I believe in marriage and would never have a love child with someone who wasn't singularly committed to me.
I feel I still have time to figure out who I am and where I'll make my mark.
To end in my hippie way.
Peace & Love
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