Free-Will

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

George Bernard Shaw

            I want to be a top scholar, an orator translating the thoughts of the geniuses into words for the masses. Recognized across the world for my intellect and skills.

            I want to be an engineer, getting paid to perform my studies that further probed the extent of our knowledge on quarks. My theories would be published for peer review and I would be unrivaled in my field of study.

            I want to be a __. The truth is anyone that is truly motivated can mold themselves to be anything they want, they can be anything they want (within reason of course). One interpretation of Mr. Shaw's quote is that any life hasn't been planned out in the slightest and anyone can change the way their life is turning out to be with perseverance. People aren't "finding" themselves because there is nothing to find. The individual must work for their meaning in life - whether it be a doctor, engineer, or renown scholar it doesn't matter. There is nothing forces any one person to be any specific thing. That is the beauty of free-will. Life is a process that one must take the initiative to mold into what they want it to be and this implies mistakes. At one point or another one a mistake will be made and the path chosen will not be the path wanted. This is okay, so long as a conscious effort is made to learn from the error and the error is rectified.