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December 2008 
Scholarship Entry
Posted on Dec 22nd, 2008
by 
Shelby
Shelby
What is your purpose?
Affect the world by the millions. Present innovative thoughts, progress, and life to the spiritually deceased.
What do you love, and how do (or will) your actions demonstrate this?
Once people begin to lose their entrancement for the world and its wonder, they slowly spiritually die. Living for 3 months in Honduras, participating 3 years in foreign exchange (including a 3 week home stay in Paris), and immersing myself in extracurricular activities that span to each kind of interest has let me experience the fire of living life and I want to light the same torch for people of all ages. I care about expanding knowledge and influencing others to do the same, exploring various cultures, and maintaining a positive outer image. In order to proliferate my knowledge, I read, learn from the wise and educated, and take time to ruminate on the knowledge I receive while considering ways to apply it to my life. The avenue I use to influence others is one of leading life by example, I do what I love and it illuminates me contagiously. As for exploring cultures, I not only have lived in 2 countries through foreign exchange/volunteering but speak 3 languages (French, Spanish, English... However, the first two are rudimentary!) and in High School was a member of the French Club and Multicultural International club. Finally, I maintain a positive outer image by constantly seeking to refine and polish my appearance so that I project my self-worth as a person who cares deeply about their place and value in the world.
Write your ideal job description.
If I could get paid for anything, it would be to advance my generation as deeply and in as many facets as possible. In my opinion, one of our primary objectives as humans is to always shoot for higher stars and embrace the idea of progress. For hundreds, thousands, millions of years the human race has built itself up by proliferating things that they've learned through deductive and inductive logic, experimentation, and proverbially standing on the shoulders of giants that came before them. My days would consist of reading, experimentation, and collaboration with forward-thinkers to implement innovative ways of thinking and living efficiently as well as enlightenment of spiritual ideas and the creation of new inventions. Doing all of this, I would feel as though I had successfully lived the life I was born live.
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