Wasting Away Again...

In tru TRUzine form, here's another article about random thoughts that came to me while sitting through a boring lecture. You can't blame me for daydreaming, my professor is lecturing on short term economic monetary policies. Will this really aid me in getting a job out of college, I doubt it. Will an interviewer actually care if I can list the reasons the banking system in Japan sucks. I hope not. That is my problem, during this, my final year of college, I do not feel anymore prepared for the "real world" as I did four years ago. College instilled in me a few things, none of which were learned in the classroom. One thing I've learned is how to be self-sufficient. Which I will agree is very important, but we learn that by being forced to do things for ourselves, not by reading it in a book. But the main thing I've brought out of college is that no matter how hard you study, how smart you think you are, or how much you've learned, you will never be prepared for the future.
When I first thought of this, I didn't dwell on it, but now, I can't quit thinking about it. Our childhoods revolve around preventing this dilemma from coming true. Case in point, I'm sure every one of you have been told by a parent or teacher to study hard to prepare yourself for the future. I was told to take college prep courses in high school, attend a prestigious college, and I would be prepared for the future. Well the future my teachers told me about is here, and I do not feel prepared for anything. So why did I waste seventeen years of my life preparing myself to be unprepared? A big problem here is that the future we are aiming for is an arbitrary point that passes us up with out warning. But if it did somehow tell us it has arrived, then it would lose its identity as the future. I hate hearing commercials that state, "the future is now, grasp it" What bullshit, if the future is now, it would be the present. The future always eludes us because it constantly changes. I recently visited Mike Moore's webpage, and he posted Xeno's Paradox on his opening page. This paradox fits my ideas perfectly. It basically states that you can never reach your intended goal. Kind of pessimistic, but interesting.
So what does this have to do with bicycles, nothing really. I wish I had some great words of wisdom to bestow upon you to defeat this problem, but I am still searching. Until then, do what you have to do to make it in life, but don't forget to live your life in the meantime.