Blog Assignment #6: Choosing a Life Story
For next time, read the following short pieces in LLTM:
1. Frost's poem on pp. 458 - 59
2. The selection from "Good Will Hunting" on pp. 322 - 29.
3. Badcock's essay on pp. 101 - 07.
All of the readings are about choices at critical moments in one's life. Who am I? What do I want to be? We are constantly telling the story of our lives as we live it.
The first year of college is all about change in the way we see ourselves and the choices we make make. Some of you came to college secure in the vocational path you wanted to take in life. Some of you aren't sure.
In general, reflect on the changes that have occurred in your life's path in the last two months.
All of these readings are giving you advice, sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly, about the choices you must make. Has your choice of a vocation changed in the last couple of months? If so, why? If not, why not?
Have you discovered that your abilities/ talents are suitable to your choice of vocation? Is any of the advice in the reading helpful? How so? If it isn't, then reflect on the failure of some specific piece of advice in your particular case.
