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The 'Right' Way To Live

Recently, I have seen Facebook posts written by students anonymously to other students, berating those that take up a place at a top-class, prestigious university with their primary objective to do as well as they can, get as best a job they can afterwards, and make as much money as possible with that job. They are accused of taking the place of a student that has an actual passion or love for that subject. 

Now, my problem with this is that I don't know why someone feels it is their place to tell someone how they should live their life and what their aspirations and motivations should be, and secondly, there really is no right way to live! I mean, of course, we have laws and regulation governing what we can and cannot do, but to say that someone shouldn't have a place at university because their motivations lie too far off someone else's moral compass?! 

Yes, perhaps the world would be a happier place if people all studied the subjects they loved, not the ones that would get them to the top of the corporate ladder with astronomical incomes. And yes, perhaps in a 'utopia' everyones's jobs and actions were to the benefit of humankind, but we know that that just isn't and can never be the case. Nobody knows why we're here and what our purpose is - people used to think it was just to praise the lord but we know now that it's probably not that...

Cease judgement of the way people choose to live their life, and concentrate on the way you want to live YOUR life! (Unless that's what you want to do with your life; then by all means, go ahead!)

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