To become nothing is a monstrous tragedy that is only destined for those deserved of it. Even greater a horror is to become nothing when you have potential (or at least believe you do).  To grow up with passion and desire of becoming something, of helping others and succeeding in creating purpose for your life. Instead you drift into a meaningless retail job, with a basic undergraduate degree, lost and without passion for anything certain, except wanting more.

I tried finding comfort in the words of Oscar Wilde:

“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything , and that is your reward.”

To become something you have wanted with great passion will bring happiness and greater sense of identity. To be lost never becoming anything, because you have no idea of what you want to be or what you want is a punishment fit for the worst.

Maybe laying out a passionate goal and being proactive is the cure from becoming nothing.

“Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.”- Sophocles

 I am deserved to become something more than a circular retail job and worthless bachelor degree. We are all deserving of becoming what we want.