A Different Direction

In life I think its safe to say they choices you make lead you to wherever you end up. Any person who has lived a full life, has to have been either successful or not, but the factor that determines their success would be the choices they made to achieve it, sometimes life provides people with an opportunity and they have to make the decision to peruse that or not, and if they choose the latter, they could have possibly missed out on something big or just avoided something horrible. Now that’s just looking at the idea in a very broad sense as people tend look at themselves and other based on the big decisions they make in life. However I believe that smallest of choices can affect the biggest outcome of our lives, because I believe the choices we make especially in the early stages of our lives define who we are.

To elaborate on my point I will give an example from my own experience. During this period of uni, I have a few more weeks left and a bunch of assignments to finish, so friend of mine and I are working on assignment together, we agreed to meet after our morning class for an hour, because I had a lecture to get to, and I told him I would come back afterwards for another hour. Now after the lecture another friend of mine and I usually have lunch together, and he asked me if I wanted hang out as usual, now I could have said yes, and left my teammate alone working on our project. Now I didn’t do that but to be honest part of me wanted to because I was so hungry, but I went to help, but if I didn’t what would the outcome have been?

Firstly I would have had a friend mad at me for not helping out since we are working on project that is meant to be a collaboration, and without my contribution I wouldn’t have gotten any marks, but the positive in this case would have that I would have eaten one good meal, which really isn’t worth compared to what I would get if I worked on my assignment instead.

It’s a small choice, but it would affect the outcome of my day. It would have gone from being a good productive day for me, to being just another ordinary day with precious time wasted. Now its hard to say how this one choice would affect my life in the long term and as definition of my character. That would all be dependent on number of other factors, like for example, if I was to repeat this again. I did this once but now in the future I have the choice to repeat it over and over again, now if I where to do that, I am bound to be a person who just doesn’t care about my work and considerate of other people.

Its interesting to look at the amount of choices we are presented with on a daily basis, some big some small, but all contribute to a web of possibilities were anything could happen when take one step, but then you always wonder what it could have been.

Symposium notes week 10

In very brief bullet points, here is some of the things I took down for week 10 during the symposium:

Blog idea- choices you make

Use foot notes for essay

Long tail, from last weeks reading.

Shelf space, is that stores would only stock products that they know are going to sell- another possible blog, expand further

 

Time

I cannot believe how fast this year has gone. I moved to Melbourne last year, I remember that time so well. I had left home for the first time, not living anywhere else, realizing that I’m going to be starting university soon, even though it was just the foundation course. It was big step and a change for me, although it wasn’t too bad because I was living with my sister and I had visited Melbourne quite a few times before hand, so I wasn’t facing a culture shock. It was the beginning of a new chapter in my life, it was exciting but at the same time terrifying.

 

I remember the first few months; meeting new people, adjusting to the life as a university student, getting to know my surroundings and whole system on how to mange my life now that my parents were not there, trying to be careful with my finances, to sum it all up learn how to be independent. The whole year of 2013 changed my life, and it changed for the better, I met new people, I became a totally different person, I grew up. Melbourne has become my home away from home, in ways that I never thought would happen, the people I met became my family, I found a place among my new friends, who made my feel welcome from day 1, and without a doubt it was the best year of my life, and just like breath on a mirror its over. I cannot believe its already been a year since I moved and I met all my friends, and became the person I am now, and 2014 was is about to come to an end too. It already September, soon it will be December and well another new beginning for all of us.

 

But right now, even as I am writing this post, as the next part of journey in Melbourne has come about, things have changed even more. I recently move into a new apartment, (a note to, whoever is reading this never move during a semester), the old apartment I lived in, was owned by family, so I my dad was paying a mortgage instead of rent, and this apartment was in my family for seven years. Now I never lived in it for all that time, my two older siblings did, but when I visited Melbourne over the course of those years that’s where we stayed, that apartment was one of the things that helped me feel like I was at home. When it was sold and I had to move out it was difficult, saying bye to something that was a big part of my life.

 

I also found that my surroundings wouldn’t be the only thing that’s changed. My life has taken a turn, new house, new responsibilities, and new life. Now I won’t specify how it has changed but it has, and I think for the first time in my life I am experience real change, where everything is a mystery, and now what I have to do is figure out how to adjust. The point of all what I am writing is that , as I have mentioned before is that time is going so fast, and it feels like everything is going to be over soon. Personally I don’t want it to, but since it beyond my control I guess I have to make every moment count.