Was I Standing Still?

Why isn't society just ever content with where a person is?

I just got my "Graduate Study in Psychology" book today for a report I have to do on eight different schools and their programs for my Orientation to Psychology class. The class is just a general overview of you opportunities (grad school, med/law school, jobs, etc.) BEYOND getting you BA/BS as an undergrad. This is a class a student is required to take once declaring the major. Now, I didn't declare until the end of last semester... which is why I am taking it now. But there are some Freshmen in my class. I know it's good to be prepared and look to the future, but damn. Can a person get through a year or two of college before they start stressing over the next step(s)?

I think it was the same in high school... The minute you step foot in the building, you are asked what your plans are, what you want to do, are going to college, etc. Scratch that, those questions started in 8th grade with the more or less pointless class of "Careers". Why can't society be content with a teen getting good grades, hanging out with friends, playing sports, maybe getting a part time job, for Freshmen and Sophomore year and save the hard-core questioning for the beginning of Junior year?

Like I said, preparation is good. But is it good to complete miss out on the present due to focusing on or distracted by the future? I don't believe so.

There's my little rant for the day. Oh, that and a Ray LaMontagne song ("Hold You in My Arms") was in the Amanda Bynes movie "She's the Man". Yeah, the movie has it's laughs now and then... but really. His stuff is better than that! A little piece of me died when I heard the song come on.