Personal Reflective Essay: The Value Of Education

As I scrolled through the course catalog for my first trimester of senior year, I searched for courses that would fit with my passions and senioritis. I was pretty much finished with a lot of my requirements for graduation, so I wanted to take classes that interested me and involved most of my passions. I took a mental note of a few of the classes I would definitely want to register for: Advanced Drawing and Painting, Latin American Studies, Western Feminism… and the list went on. I continued this process of selecting my classes until I came to a pause. Existentialism. That seemed different. Not only was I completely unaware of what existentialism was, I was originally intimidated by taking any class that I could hardly pronounce the name of. Figuring existentialism would go completely over my head, I scrolled past it looking for other classes that would be more laid back and fun—since it was my senior year. As I filled in all of the courses I had selected to the registration sheet, I noticed that there was one slot empty. Frustrated, I searched back on the catalog for an easy elective I could just fill in, but something drew me back to existentialism. I figured I could at least give …show more content…
For so long I realized that I had lacked personal discovery. I was religious by association, mundanely attending weekly gatherings without processing or applying the principals that I was taught to my life. To me this was worse than anything. I didn’t want to be a robot and physically be there but not mentally or spiritually be conscious. Not only did I feel like this action was a disservice to myself, but to the organization and the people in the organization. At this moment before I could even consider committing to a religious organization, I needed to be the one responsible for my spiritual