joshua wilsher

Last Days

My posts are looking a bit sad these days without a camera - I almost thought I had it fixed today but not quite. Then I ended up shocking myself with its internal power source - damn near threw me off my chair so I put the kibosh on that little project.

I was hoping to have 150 posts before I left Butler but I have fallen a little short with about 140. As it seems this will be the last post from Butler, I thought I would express my thoughts regarding the past 11 months.

Education and the possibility of adventure were the chief reasons for coming here. While at times I feel a lack of tangiable outcomes from my studies, I am confident that I have made substatial contributions to my skill set, acquired meaningful professional experience and gained much needed direction for future career endeavours. (That reads like a resume. YUK!) It's somewhat harder to evaluate the hedonic outcomes from my time abroad, but I certainly had a lot of enjoyable experiences. I am always pleased when faculty and fellow students note that I'm always involved in something.

Sometimes I feel that I should make a greater effort to forge more meaningful relationships with people. There's no doubt that I know a lot of people here and in return many know me, but I question how much these relationships will contribute to my future wellbeing.

Then there's America. That place I have always found so so so so so so so so intriguing. While its culture is inarguably the most potent of all, I think my fascination has derived from fabrication rather than reality. From now on, I wish to be able to make a clear distinction between the two.

Despite this, there's a piece of granite rock that sits out there on the eastern seaboard that gives me a lot of pleasure. And somehow I think never before more than now. I'm outta here!

posted by Joshiesmoov @ 11:32 AM