Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Positive News
It can seem that all news is bad news. In our world where war, terror, disease, economic collapse and hardship are splashed across front pages, and streaming out of television and computer screens it can all seem very bleak. However, ignoring the old adage that ‘bad news travels faster than good’ this blog will bring you only the positive stories in our world. From small human pieces to worldwide miracles, let us go in search of the good news. It must be out there somewhere…
Friday, 18 September 2009
Trying to avoid adulthood.
How often do we reach a proverbial crossroads in our lives?
My name is Chris Madden, I have just finished university and find myself striding out into the real world. I’ll be honest, this is not my first foray into the world, I took a gap year before university, and spent half of it travelling round the USA. But this point in my life is the first time I’ve been living ‘without a net’ as it were.
I’m sure any of you reading this who are around your late teens/early twenties, or those of you who have passed through this period, can sympathise with the sensations I’m about to describe. It’s the nagging sensation that education is over and adulthood should probably be beginning. Money is short, and the parents are beginning to get tetchy over when you’re going to get a job. To be honest though, a job is not often at the forefront of the mind at the moment. I’ve discovered that the side effect of doing a degree which is not profession specific (English and Greek Civilisation) is that I don’t have a job to stumble into. A part of me envies the medics who know exactly where they’re heading after their degree finishes. While I do have a long term plan, it seems that this is more a time when I should be travelling, and experiencing the world before getting tied down to the finalities of jobs.
So with that in mind we arrive here. This is the crossroads, and I have done a pretty good job of making it far more dramatic and clichéd than I intended to. Nevermind, join me here for a small insight into the life of someone moving on from education, but trying desperately to avoid adulthood!
My name is Chris Madden, I have just finished university and find myself striding out into the real world. I’ll be honest, this is not my first foray into the world, I took a gap year before university, and spent half of it travelling round the USA. But this point in my life is the first time I’ve been living ‘without a net’ as it were.
I’m sure any of you reading this who are around your late teens/early twenties, or those of you who have passed through this period, can sympathise with the sensations I’m about to describe. It’s the nagging sensation that education is over and adulthood should probably be beginning. Money is short, and the parents are beginning to get tetchy over when you’re going to get a job. To be honest though, a job is not often at the forefront of the mind at the moment. I’ve discovered that the side effect of doing a degree which is not profession specific (English and Greek Civilisation) is that I don’t have a job to stumble into. A part of me envies the medics who know exactly where they’re heading after their degree finishes. While I do have a long term plan, it seems that this is more a time when I should be travelling, and experiencing the world before getting tied down to the finalities of jobs.
So with that in mind we arrive here. This is the crossroads, and I have done a pretty good job of making it far more dramatic and clichéd than I intended to. Nevermind, join me here for a small insight into the life of someone moving on from education, but trying desperately to avoid adulthood!
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