Apathy

It's hard to win the war on apathy. It's much easier to retreat into the mindless completion of mundane tasks that need to be checked off of a list that seems only to grow. It's hard to keep caring about assignments that seem to get you nowhere, and classes that seem so far removed from a tangible purpose. It's hard to keep any semblance of a real life when each day has a new test, a fifty-minute period of stress that has the ability to determine a grade. It's hard to remember the greater purpose for why we are here – the idealism and hope with which we entered this school. Yet, if we stop caring and stop believing that we are here for something more than just tests and grades and a diploma, we face merely the unhappiness that stems from apathy. It’s easy to think that apathy ends with school. That once we are out there, in the real world, doing the career of our choice, that all will be right in the world. That once we are doctors or lawyers or businessmen, we will actually care. We forget that apathy exists everywhere and in everyone. It’s waiting – and when a list of patients piles up waiting to be cured of petty coughs and runny noses, we will remember the college planner of assignments that never ceased - and apathy will reemerge. Time does not cure apathy, so what does?