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The Blog About Nothing

I'm stumped. How many times have you felt yourself saying or feeling this throughout the day? Most people have grown up with the mantra to follow your dreams, your passion. We're encouraged to cultivate our passion and skills so that we can build upon this into our adulthood. Some are lucky to find their calling; doctors, lawyers, teachers, chefs, artists, entrepreneurs. There is a vast majority out there however, like myself, that just float around society trying to grasp onto something stable and solid. And as we hope to just stumble and fall into the niche where we belong, a lot of business, psychology/sociology, or liberal arts majors are handed diplomas unsure of what to do with it next. The childhood dreams I had were to become an artist or a writer. Somehow through my adolescent life, I felt unworthy among my ripe and talented peers. So I lost touch with this aspiration and felt it was an unattainable goal. I became a seedling, a bud that never flourished among the ple...