Character Study III

As I looked around the room and back to myself I wondered where everyone was going in life and what they wanted to do. I didn't want to judge anyone but it was hard to silence out the clothes and personalities of everyone around me. That's when I heard the infamous whiteboard screech. "Class this is only going to be about a fifteen minute class. I will give you the assignment and give you the semester to finish it. This is the only class that is granted with the privilege of being a semester class, so please make the best our of it." I felt my eyes widening to the size of softballs and my hands began to slip from each other's grip as my nerves took over. I only had a few months to design an experiment that had "social enrichment". "What does that even mean?!" I whispered under my breath as I slumped out of class. There were no rules or guidelines and all I had was the faint remembrance of what I had done for my senior masterpiece in high school, but I needed something bigger. I immediately regretted coming to college and I questioned what I was doing with my life and where I wanted to go. I didn't even know what this had to do with anything if I wanted to go into medicine other than the fact that it was social. Cry, laugh, blank, excited, done. I saw all the emotions I felt in the different faces of the people around me. I realized that I had no idea what their names were or their favorite color or even why they were taking this class. I had to learn through looking and as if slapped in the face, my motivation hit me. I would travel to the place of peace atop a mountain of silence to "find" my voice; the Monk Temple of Him. But I had no idea what I was getting into or what I would discover.