Today, I got my letter of acceptance for my full-time position. (Yay! Except I'm still on my three-month probationary period. Hmmmm. One wrong move and bye-bye full time job.)

Letters of acceptance - are they what we get to live for for the rest of our lives? It all starts with applications for undergrad. After application crunch time in high school, we all sit around waiting for those letters that supposedly will change our lives and determine our futures - whether for the better (acceptance! yay! I have a future!) or for the worse (rejection! omg, what am I going to do with my life?!). Then after that, it's grad school acceptance/rejection for some, while job acceptance/rejection for others.

If we're unhappy with our jobs, we continue looking, or we give up with the attempt at living in the real world and head back to the sheltered world of schoolage. Either way, it's more letters of acceptances or rejections. It's scary how most of our futures are dependent on these letters (and in extension, the people who control which letter you get). These pieces of papers with words decide whether you'll be stuck in a rut for a little while longer (or forever) or actually get away, a step closer towards your goals or dream.

I can see why people want to be their own bosses and open their own businesses. Generally, you get to make all the rules and decisions, you get to be the one to offer letters of acceptances or rejections to others, and your future is in your own hands. Or so it seems. At the end, no matter what kind of business you run, your success or failure still remains in the hands of others (open a restaurant? Need diners and other people to provide you the materials needed; be a self-employed artist? Need people to buy your art so that you can buy materials to continue creating), and in that sense, you can never outrun those letters of acceptances and rejections - they just take up different a form. How. Sad. :(


What does any of this have to do with the picture? Absolutely nothing - I just think the owls are too cute; and I didn't know what kind of picture to put with this entry anyway. I was thinking of an acceptance letter, but that's boring. Meh. Picture's from cuteoverload.com. Love the site!