How are you? Oh, that’s nice, what’s your major? Okay, so what are your goals? What do you want to be when you grow up? What do you do for a living? Are you making good money with that?
Seriously? Is this what every one of our initial conversations has come to? When I first went to college, I joked about making a T-shirt during welcome week that said, “Samantha, Iowa, Marketing” because the first three questions I got were my name, home, and major. I knew it was a little over the top, but I also knew I was better than the facts on my homepage (…or LinkedIn, or Facebook ‘About Me’, or..).
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My dad saw one of my best friends for the first time in six years. The first question out of his mouth was, “So Kyle, what’s your passion?”
And we were both speechless. Kyle did a great job of stuttering his answer, and returned the question. What would you answer?
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The meaning of life. People are always searching for it. I hope it’s nowhere to be found.
I know what I want, and my life has been finding a way to achieve it. My goals? My passions? My livelihood? Shouldn’t the answer to all of the aforementioned questions be the same?
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South Sudan became a country in May of 2011, and according to the UN, is the 194th country. I know the laws of ONE country well enough to break them. I know the people of ONE country well enough to stereotype them. I have called ONE country home.
I’ve always been proud to be in the top whatever percent of whatever I do. I do my best and apply myself to my passions. Culture and the world is my passion, and I have done almost nothing to achieve an exceptional level of understanding of it.
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There are 194 countries in the world. I have been to The United States, Mexico, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and Italy. 3.6% of the world.
I am here to see where the wind takes me, and enjoy every little adventure along the way, and explore every single country in the world. I am taking the road less traveled to answer all of those questions with my passion for experiencing the world.
.. only 187 to go!