My Quest (and Updates)

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We were taught in Psychology 101 class this year that there is no one thing that would make people happy. When someone wins an award or makes a lot of money or gets that car that they've wanted to get for their entire lives, sure.. they're happy, but the award expires, the money is spent, and the car company comes out with a newer model. When professors get tenure they believe they will be happier than if they had not gotten tenure, when in fact three years down the road these tenured teachers are just as happy as those who did not  make it on the list.

I didn't believe it was true when I heard about Quest. I thought to myself.. "If I get into Quest I will never be unhappy. I will be so happy that there is no chance I will be as unhappy as I am now." I got in. I was happy. Then I needed a scholarship and I knew, I just KNEW, that if I were to get a full scholarship ($28 000 -- basically an impossible task) that there is no way I would not be happy for the rest of my LIFE.

I got the scholarship.

I was really happy.. sort of. I felt weird about it. I wanted it for so long and so badly that when I got it, I thought "really?" While my parents cried all night long in Australia when they heard the news.

I also made Dean's List.

Got another scholarship ($2500).

Passed my 2 out of 3 driving tests (got my N)

And resigned from my brutal job (remember last time when I told you how amazing this job was? Do you? That was more than a year ago.. oh, how times change).


I am so happy to be going to Quest. It is going to change my life. I talk (brag) about it to everyone including the customer service lady at Rogers while we sat for 10 minutes waiting for my phone to restart (exaggeration).

I feel more of .. a person (?) than ever before. I am able to confidently do things I never would have dreamt of doing (mostly social-wise -- not in my personal life, but in my business one. When I need to get things done I no longer rely so heavily on my mom to do it for me)

The other day I managed to set up my bank account, call the credit card company (complain about the guy from the bank account kiosk), replace broken headphones with the incorrect store receipt (store in general-- my warranty was through another store), and return home in time for supper.. at the grandparents.. who I called to ask if we could go over to pick up some things.

All of those things, which may not seem like a big deal to ANYONE ELSE, I would not have done last year.

You change, the world changes, life moves on. What made you happy at one time, evolves, expands, changes. You will and can be happy, but what makes you hap(py is not your accomplishments, awards, or material possessions. It is your life, your spirit, your opinions, your attitude.

That and your social life.

So, yes, Quest University will make me very, very happy.




(Never lose hope, right?)