Me, myself, and I

I, like most of the young college educated, am a part of facebook. And I've been noticing a popular spam going around called "25 things about me" where one lists 25 things about themselves people might not know. I understand why this is so popular however, I don't really like the reason I've come up with.

I know I shouldn't be one to speak, since I blog about my life experiences. Nevertheless I will defend this blog by saying this is for loved ones far away (that may miss my stupid antics) and for the sole purpose of getting me to continually exercise my writing ability. Plus, I feel that I'm not so much telling you what I'm like as showing my experiences and how I feel about them (aka you won't ever know what I had for dinner).

I think this ruffles my feathers more as an underlying piece of a pet peeve of mine...finding yourself. People waste lifetimes doing this and are usually never happy with anything. To me, these people spend too much time on self-speculation and not enough time on actually doing anything. My experience with people like this is that most don't really have long term goals. Their so set on looking within themselves they don't really look to see what's right in front of their noses. I really believe that trying to find yourself is like trying to locate the piece that makes a computer a computer. There's tons of things that help it run but no one thing makes it what it is. Stop trying to break yourself down into one category and start living your life to find out what pieces make it up.

Going back to the 25 things, this trend is very much like finding yourself. Let's center everything on us. Let's think about ourselves but not really what we can do with ourselves. Why care about writing things like that? You're going to be a completely different person in 7 years anyway. It's a waste of your time you could spend working towards a goal...or maybe writing a blog.