WHAT MAKES YOU ITCH?
Well, on a personal level, for me, that is rowing. And for all people a like, you will or have already reached that moment in our life where you question what you would like to do with our lives. Unfortunately, humanity has become educated and raised in a society were tangibles have consumed our very being. Minds have become corrupt and clouded in today’s world of capitalism.
In our society and many others worldwide, this idea of money has set humanity to forget a great gift of life. Happiness. Money cannot buy you happiness, even to what the critiques argue. The great modern philosopher Alan Watts presents us all with a question.
“What would we like to do with our lives if money were no object?”
When sincerely asked what we would like to do with our lives, there is this variety of answers. Alan Watts emphasizes to his students and enthusiasts that what we want to do with our lives must remain independent from a monetary value. People may want to be: writers, poets, painters, rowers, or maybe we would like to ride horses in the countryside. Alan Watt philosophizes that it is better to live a short life doing things that we love, rather than a long life spent in a miserable way. And after all, if we truly like what we are doing with our life, then we will become masters of our own domain.
I was inspired by the alumni, who spoke to the commerce classes during the Alumni Introductions from class 13 on October 22, 2013. A common theme from all of our presenters were that they differed occupations of monetary value to pursue their own personal dreams. A lesson taught to them by our very own Professor Jeff Kroeker, who told his students to not go for the job with the largest pay cheque, but the one that would offer the most satisfaction for the rest of their life.