Hi.
I'm Will. What am I doing on Eric's blog? Your guess is as good as mine. Eric told me that I should try blogging, so here I am. And I thought I would give a little bit of a different perspective on life.
I know that a lot of people spend their lives wishing they were smarter, and I'm sure that they've wondered how much more awesome life would be if they were a genius. But I've spent most of my life thinking about the opposite.
When I was a little half-asian kid in Colorado, I was pretty dang smart? Now? Not so much. And I'm actually not being modest, considering that in 4th grade, I had an A+ in algebra.Compared to that, now I'm an underachieving dunce.
Anyway, back then, my parents had some pretty big expectations for me. Nobel Prize? President? Why else would they make me spend half of my days in 4th and 5th grade at the middle school? I don't think they made me go on that bus ride home with the 8th graders every day for nothing.
I don't think I felt stress back then, but I probably felt the closest thing. I was tired of being a genius. All I wanted to be normal. And I guess my wish is granted. A combination of lack of initiative, moving to California, and hardcore music probably dumbed me down.
Today, I'm a bigger half-asian kid in California who suffers through his Calculus class and is constantly stressed because he has to go to an Ivy League school to meet his parents' expectations. Sometimes I wish I had the brains that I used to, but I've figured by now that everything happens for a reason, and I know the pressure I'm under is going to help me someday, and I'll go to college and get a job and change someone's life. That's my goal (along with climbing Mt. Everest and becoming uber-good at skiing).
So what's the moral? I dont know; try hard, don't slack off, accept changes and use them for the better. However I do know that my goal in life has changed for the better. I would much rather change someone else's life than win the Nobel Prize.
And that's a good change.
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