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What's Next?

     When you're young, everyone always asks you what you want to be when you grow up. No one tells you that even after graduating college, you will still be asking yourself the same question. It doesn't matter if you graduate college when you're 21 or 27, everyone faces the same reality after college; so now what?      I wish when I was in high school someone would have told me I would change my mind about what I wanted to do more times than I have fingers to count. I know the results of what I want to be: rich, famous, successful, you know, the usual. But how do we get there?       Sometimes I think it's a good thing that I'm interested in so many things. I feel like I will be able to find something to do that makes me happy. Other times, I feel like it's a curse because I feel like I have no sense of direction on where to go in life. I know I'm not the only one who feels like this and I'm sure a lot of people can relate who h...

Life After Death

Today I was driving to the Bay Area and talking about how Paul Walker died so tragically this past weekend. I started reading about what celebrities were saying about Walker and to sum it up, he was a down-to-earth guy who knew there was more to life than a glamorous Hollywood lifestyle. He started a charity to give back to people less fortunate who faced tragedy because of natural disasters. I started to wonder, why is it always the good people who go?  It's never the people who this world would be better without. Then I realized, if the good ones weren't taken away, life wouldn't be put in perspective. We wouldn't realize just how much we have to lose. I started to think about death and if I were to die tomorrow, what would my legacy be? What would people say about me? I hope I would be remembered for good things, not bad.   Steve Jobs said that thinking about death is the only way he knew how to live.  Maybe we all need to think that way so we live...