Life~Trials~Inspiration

Through our lifetimes we will enter many stages of development, growth prosperity and at time downfall. Some stages will make us feel like were on top of the world and others may make us question if we have the strength to keep going. At other times in our lives we are faced with choices that will severely shape our futures and lives as we know them. These times are often met with fear and questions, trust me I understand that. I am at the point in my life where I need to make decisions, decisions about college, how I want to live my life, where I want to go and where I want to end up. Despite always having a pretty clear understanding of what I want for my life, now that it's here, up until this point it has been pretty overwhelming and honestly terrifying. It is now however that I have come to the conclusion that the same fear I let envelope my mind can be directly turned into excitement. The excitement factor is this, yes I have to make what seems like a million life impacting d...

Statistics.. Probability.. Compatibility, these are all concepts based upon chance and yes some statistics may have patterns that back them up per say but that makes them a chance no less. I've been thinking tonight how it's kind of ironic that were at a day in age where we talk endlessly about self discovery and figuring out who we truly are as people etc, and yet we trust so much in statistics. A statistic is a fact for some people but not all, it is defined as "a fact or piece of data from a study of a large quantity of numerical data". According to this definition, a statistic is a number... If we are truly trying to figure out who we are as people then why so often do we degrade ourselves and one another to a number? Think about this for a while, it might drive you fairly insane just as it has me. We have statistics of who is most likely to graduate, statistics of how many people will encounter a certain situation in their lives, statistics of how ma...