What are your most precious and perhaps most audacious dreams? What would it mean for you if you achieved these dreams? Develop a plan for doing so.
I have lived in six different houses located in 2 different towns/states and now I live on the second floor of Greene at Wofford College. Moving is hard, but I fully support the idea that the change of moving and being outside of your comfort zone is helpful to growth as a person. Of course, it took moving for me to learn this. It is the people you meet when you move, the troubles you are faced with, and the experiences that are brought to you that make the difference. By learning this I have discovered my most precious and perhaps most audacious dreams: to travel as much as possible and learn from the people around me.
I have been out of the country once, and I am so ashamed to admit that. Just from that one experience in Jamaica I could talk for hours on end about the culture, the poverty, the amazing people, and their lack of skills while driving a jet ski. I have to bite my tongue when I hear a naïve person say he or she has no desire to see the rest of the world. How can we be so small minded in the USA to think our culture is the most exciting? Please, I would much rather dance all night to a reggae band, see the Great Wall of China, stay with a family in Spain, and in doing so learn from the people that surround me.
Mark my word; my 4 years at Wofford will consist of multiple travels inside and outside of the United States. Then again, Wofford makes it extremely easy to travel abroad and we would be half crazy to pass up that opportunity. For me to achieve this goal of traveling the world would bring wisdom and memories that no one could take away from me.
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