so this post is probably a more philosophy based one. honestly, the whole health care situation going on now is boggling my mind, and if i'm going to be confused, i'm going to confuse myself ("oprah calls that empowerment"-lewis black) anyway, if you're a stranger to me, i love the show lost. to me, that show is all about choices. that's why i like it so much. the characters are never presented with a situation in which they say 'this is clearly the right thing to do'. the lost-universe is never black or white...it's almost entirely gray. just like in real life...only we generally don't worry about smoke monsters, time travel, or random polar bears. but how many times in our own lives have we ever been 100% certain of anything? not many. and now with this whole "flash sideways" thing happening, viewers are seeing how different lives would be based on one incident. one thought. one action. one decision. how different would my life be if i took that job in kentucky instead of the one in pennsylvania? where would i be if i wore that red shirt instead of the black one?
this gets me to what i consider to be the biggest decision of my life. getting my m.a. in theatre management or getting my a.a.s. in veterinary technology. by all means, going for grad school seemed like the 'safe' decision. going into a vet tech program based solely on science (science and i have not always gotten along so well) was a risky decision. i'm sure that by reading my profile, most of you have correctly deduced that i went the way of the a.a.s. i'm always thinking of what life would be like had i gone the other way. would i be as happy? would i be as successful? would the people i know now be in my life in a different role? (for example, one of my teachers is also going for her master's at the same university i was accepted to...would i have met her in the library or something?). it's a very abstract thought process, but think of the most important decision in your life, and imagine what life might have been like if you chose the other way. as for me, as interesting as my alternate universe might be to imagine, i'm glad i didn't take the clear-cut path. or did i?