“Inspiration”

If you are expecting a post on things that inspire me or how you can find inspiration this is NOT it. In fact this is the exact opposite – it’s bashing people who sit on the internet and talk about inspiration. This rant is dedicate to my former friend/friend/I don’t know what we are L. L has taken it upon herself to bombard facebook, twitter, tumblr and all things internet with her current search for inspiration. She’s not seeking inspiration or advice from the rest of us but instead she is sharing videos of other people talking about what inspires them and how they found themselves. These are basically motivational speeches. If you know me you know where I stand on motivational speeches. My stand on motivational speeches is the same as my stand on religion (if you are easily offended now is the time to tune out/sorry for offending anyone) – they are for the weakest link. You see I was raised by two engineers who grew up in communism and thus don’t believe in god but rather science. These two people moved to a whole new country when they were in their 30′s/40′s, where they didn’t know anyone and didn’t speak the language and ended up a success story so thus they believe that individuals are capable of achieving their goals on their own without the imaginary man in the sky there to guide them. Therefore, I was raised under the impression that if I fail at something it’s because I either didn’t try hard enough or I didn’t want it badly enough. I also have this whole theory on how there is a bigger picture that we don’t see and that certain events happen or don’t happen as part of the scheme of that bigger picture but that’s not a belief in religion but more of a belief in the universe. Believing in fate or the universe I think is different from believing in god, I don’t know if that makes sense to you or if I’m explaining myself correctly.

Anyway, back to my original rant – I don’t understand what posting these videos does for her. It actually makes me dislike her because the whole idea of seeking inspiration through videos on the internet seems so phony and then going further and sharing the fact that you do this with the rest of us makes you seem pretentious. Additionally, I personally see inspiration as something artistic and when I feel “artistic” I go walking around outside or go to a gallery or to a museum…I don’t go on line. And now I’m going back to studying for my health law final.

xx

Chloe B.

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