Major in Success

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Prologue

Sample Chapter 10 There You Are

Sample Chapter 22 College or Post High School

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                  Prologue: A troublesome story

This is the story of a real person, in his own words:

“I was a guy in high school who, if you’d met, you might not have thought much of. I wasn’t a standout either way. I wasn’t great and I wasn’t terrible, or so I thought. I considered myself mediocre. I certainly wasn’t popular. I had a friend or two, but my friends were much like me - lacking a general enthusiasm for life. Yes, I thought little of life and less of it each passing day. It’s a feeling that crept up on me, but I came to feel, usually, that I could take life or leave it. I was burdened by my past - too much lacking. My future seemed bleak - too high a mountain to climb.

My bedroom was decorated with posters of the good life and the lucky few: the rock stars, movie stars and celebrity athletes. I would fall asleep staring at these posters and fantasizing about a great life, but deep down the posters reminded me of how mediocre I was and all I was never going to be. I did play a sport and I wasn’t bad, although I was never the hero of the game. I did have some good games; unfortunately, they were never good enough to penetrate the wall of self doubt I felt around my heart. Perhaps the hardest thing for me about life was that I knew what I lacked, and everyone else seemed to have it - I lacked a good feeling about life.
I tried many things to get that good feeling. I’d always gone to class and done what was assigned. I’d carefully studied what the coolest people wore and dressed in the same brands. I’d tried drinking at parties and even purchasing lottery tickets. But I just couldn’t figure out how to see my life as anything more than a struggle and a responsibility. I worried that I was slowly becoming invisible to the world around me. I was disappearing because I didn’t know the secret to really living. I imagined myself one day fading so much that I just vanished.

My time dragged on and finally I reached a point where I imagined myself doomed to a dull life. Sure, I could get a job, have occasional good times, and get by, but I resolved that that wasn’t enough reason to suffer all the work in between. So I decided to do something about it.”

Later in the book, we’ll reveal what choice this guy made, but now is not the time. Now is your time. Though your story is different than every other student’s, there are many realities that are amazingly similar. Most of us can relate in one way or another with a portion of what the guy above was feeling. It’s human to feel problematic things at various times in our life. EVERYBODY does. But people choose to do different things about it. Some make negative choices. Some make positive ones. That is what makes the difference between lives enjoyed and lives not lived.