LundenTown

Been searching around my desk for my journal. Can't find it and I need it. Reading Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg. She is the CCO of Facebook. I'm reading an anecdote about a girl who grew up poor with little sense of hope in an urban area and how she became the first to go to college in her family. She studied policy and learn about the systems of oppression in this country. I resonated with her feelings that people love to list the problems but rarely take action toward solution. Like her, I want to be that change. I'm not ready to start a whole non-profit. I fear that will actually be too concentrated to one area. I'd like to volunteer with different organizations all around the globe. I really feel like I waste my free time. I want to spend it doing something meaningful. Not lucrative, just meaningful.

I also resonated with another story told in the book by Rachel Simmons. She was a Rhodes scholar who was praised all her life by how smart she was. She disgraced the country and Ivy league school by dropping out of the program in Oxford. She said all her life she kept doing what was expected of her but never listened to the inner voice telling her what she did and did not want to do.

As women, we are trained to always appear academically successful, well-rounded and attractive. We should aim to please everyone and be everyone's friend. But what if I don't want to be any of those things? Stop telling me to be sugar and spice and everything nice!