"What do you fight for?" When I initially read the this particular free-write prompt, there were all these answers that immediately rushed to my head. Not being someone to act on impulses however, I continued to ask myself the same question a couple of times. "What do I fight for"?. By the time the 5 minutes were up, I remember looking at my paper and realizing that my time had already gone by. For that particular free-write prompt, I probably just jotted down a couple of words and that was that. In retrospect though, I realize that this unconscious act speaks in it of itself.
Presented with the opportunity to give this question another try through this blog prompt, I've come to realize that, at least at this point in time, I have yet to truly decide what it is exactly that I want to accomplish. Upon careful inspection, I think that this is probably the most pressing question. Up until the whole "college experience", it seemed that I had a clear path that I wanted to follow: to carry on with my education and hopefully become either an engineer or an attorney. However, this past summer and these past months have been quite the eye-openers. My aspirations haven not changed much but through added responsibilities, I've come to see that there is more to life than to simply get that so called dream career - that there are other ways that one can be successful.
As of right now, the things that I do think I can do in efforts to eventually reach success are to develop good and worthwhile habits, to build strong foundations, to continue to do as well as is possible academically, and to make the most out of every possible opportunity all while still having some amount of fun. "What do you fight for?" is such an open-ended prompt that certainly elicits a wide variety of answers depending on who is choosing to answer. The main purpose that this prompt has served for me is to make me reflect on not only the possible future that is yet to come, but also on everything that I've done in order to reach where I stand now. It is true that time passes by in the blink of an eye but, even if you accomplish everything you had set out to accomplish, if you are not ultimately content, then are you really successful? For me, this prompt will continue to go unanswered, at least for the time being, but it is one that will constantly be present in every decision I come to make.
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