I have recently graduated from high school. Before and since I've graduated there are only four questions that I have been asked.
1. What have you been doing since you've graduated?
2. Where are going to school?
3. What's your top school?
4. What's your major?
Personally, I'm fed up with it. My answers:
1. Working
2. I have no idea yet.
3. I don't have one; I'm probably going to go with the cheapest one.
4. Journalism
I went to a dinner with my parents the other night; not like that wasn't painfully enough. In any case, I met a new person there. She introduced herself as the host's sister. I was polite and said, "Nice to meet you, etc." My parents and I were still getting our coats off when she asked me these four questions and I responded just like that . About an hour later, she found me and talked to me for an hour about college. She asked me if I had applied to such and such school; I usually hadn't. Or was I interested in this school or that school...obviously not since I hadn't applied there.
I guess people think that this is a good ice breaker. Well, it's not. I'm only seventeen! Do I really know what I want to do with the rest of my life? Not really. It's too much preasure that I don't want to talk about.
The Four Questions That Everyone Wants Answers To
By pkubik08 - Posted on March 19th, 2008
I think that for the most part, it's nice when people take interest in others' lives, but I agree with you, it can get very excessive sometimes.
I've been on both sides of the coin, so don't think I don't know where your coming from. I remember what it was like to be finished with the institution which had surrounded me and directed my footsteps for the past 13 years. There's little else I've experienced since that has caused me so much anxiety.
Sometimes it felt like the whole world was tipping on my shoulders, and if I made one wrong choice, it would ruin my life forever. Well, I made the wrong choice. I didn't apply to any colleges, scholarships, grants, aid, Anything! I was so seized by the fear of making the wrong choice, and wasting money and my life, that I just didn't choose anything.
But even though I made the wrong choice, it wasn't the end of the world. I've learned that at any moment in our lives we can change the course we are running. There is no need to fear the choices you now have the ability to make, because any one of those will be a learning experience for you.
Just keep your hope and your determination and you will be able to continue to improve yourself and your life no matter what difficulties you encounter.
~~Every human heartbeat is a universe of possibilities.~~
Gregory David Roberts
It seems that for some people, this is their life. It's all they think about, and expect everyone else to feel the same way. Try answering with "Why do you want to know?" next time, and enjoy the reaction.
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