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What I Really Want From Life

Sometimes life sucks, but keeping our goals in mind is something everyone should do.

Maizy Landreth

Nov 22, 2016

Concord University

Maizy Landreth

I have spent so much time searching what from life and from myself. Here is to all of those who want the most out of life, and won't stop until they get it. Here is for the hard workers, the bright thinkers. Here's to, well, here is to you.

Really, I want success. I want to wake up every day and know that I am in the right place and doing the right things. I want to have a good feeling when I see what I have done with myself. I want to make people proud and feel appreciated for doing what I love the most.

Really, I want family. I want to share my love with someone who shares it back. I want someone to share my views and my passions with. I want to grow up knowing I have left footsteps for my loved ones to follow. The family I have now is wonderful in every way, and I want to keep our heart alive.

Really, I want faith. I want to believe in something. I want to know my life is in good hands. I want something to keep me together when I fall apart. Knowing that someone is there, when it feels no one else is.

Really, I want a friend. Not those fake friends that will walk all over me. But a real true friend. I want someone who is there for me no matter when. Those that I have now, I hope they stay. I want them to be there forever.

Really, I want happiness. I want to smile. I want to bring joy to other people. I want life to mean something to me, and my life to others. I want my words to leave an imprint on peoples minds. I want happiness for myself, not from others. I want to create my own heart and desire and show people how it can be to do things for yourself, and be the best you that can be.

Really, I want my life. Sometimes LIFE IS HARD. It takes you on this crazy ride that seems like its never ending. This alone can be hard enough. Add in all the worlds negativity. The body shaming, the hate crimes, the technology. Its one big pot of negative weighing on top of surviving and keeping sane. Its so easy to think about how easy things would be without it all, but is that what I want? Do I want to throw it all away just for a break? No, I want to grow. I want to experience. I want to feel everything, even the pain. Without the pain, there is nothing to compare my ease to. Without the ease, I would never know the pain and how to change it.

There is so much to get out of our time here, make the best of it. Find what you want and go for it.

But this, this is what I want.

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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