Economics major

Serious101
Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:30:23 +0000

sp1212:
I guess you are the type of person that respects someone like Bill Gates more than Martin Luther King Jr. Bill Gates has accomplished the challenge of becoming the world’s richest man, only in recent years trading that spot back and forth with another man. But for what grand purpose? The purpose of the challenge was only the sake of becoming the richest man on Earth.

Then there is someone like Martin Luther King Jr. He organized massive demonstrations and rallies of thousands of people across the country in the face of massive prejudice and violence. And what was the purpose here? Was it simply the challenge of breaking civil rights event attendance records? Was he focused on trying to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records for the number of supporters one individual can get to turn out to events? No, he had a purpose, one that was in fact so challenging that he was never able to accomplish it, and knowing full well of the danger, ending up dying for it.

If you guys want to waste your lives seeking out meaningless “challenges” to accomplish as if you were playing some PC or Console game racking up “Achievement Points,” go right ahead. I on the other hand, in both my professional career and person life, will seek out the most meaningful tasks to accomplish, rather than simply the most challenging, and as the most meaningful are often the most challenging, I will end up encountering both anyway.