Too many people thinks you can do only one thing in life. They say: "choose something and do it right". I disagree.
We have do everything we want, getting on every bus that stops in front of us. Sure, you will lose a lot of time (compared to progress made by other simpler people) but it gives a good chance to smile satisfied at the moment right before your death.
This comes because of the comment made by Jason about how he had to forget about literature while studying at college. While I was at college, I was a member of the students association (the people that, among other things, keep fighting to keep college free for everyone) and conducted a couple of comittees. Yes, by the way, according to usamerican standards, I am a communist.
First myth, sport is no recreation, is an absolute basic need. If you don't exercise regularly, you are increasing your chances of being a pathetic old man/woman who can barely walk. The same reason why I don't take drugs, don't smoke and almost don't drink: there is some finite odd that I get to be old. If I knew I am gonna die tomorrow, I wouldn't take care of my body, but there is some chance that I get to be more than sixty, so I have to be careful. The other option is to suicide at forty and I'm not into that.
When I was a child, at six or seven I think, I menaced my parents to suicide. I ran to the window saying I was gonna jump. My father caught me and beated me to death. That was the end of my death wishes. Whoever says children must not be beaten doesn't know anything.
My primary goal in life now is to be something like Leonardo Da Vinci, but with the abilities of Masutatsu Oyama. Some of my friends are already enjoying well-paid jobs, marry and divorce. That's the common sense of success. But I'm not interested in that. As Friedrich Nietzche said, a man is worth to marry and have children only once he has gone beyond his parents. It's my choice of life. I don't think it's the ultimate truth. It's just the way I see life and the way I justify to be alive.