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comment by Meriadoc
Meriadoc  ·  4158 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: AskHubski: Do you feel as though you contribute to society?

Not particularly, but I always find little things that I find important.

Right now, I'm going to school for aerospace engineering, and my god do I hope to work for Elon Musk one day. That's my goal, and if I reach that, then I'll feel I'm significantly contributing to something, but until then I have to take the little things.

I work IT for a university. At first I didn't do much, but I know significantly more than most people in the system. My team and a small other team take care of most of the technologies, so it feels good that we contribute to furthering education in that way-- providing software and computers and the likes for people to learn.

I've always been a massive art buff. Film, literature, music. I have an encyclopedic knowledge of them from years of absorbing it all. The suburbs didn't provide much culture so I went out to find it. My libraries of the three are staggering by the standard person's standards. Nothing truly huge, but certainly non-negligible. One of my favorite things with this is to just converse with people I know. One of the most important people in my life and I talk about these things non-stop, especially literature. Giving suggestions, spreading ideas, changing perspectives. It's an incredible feeling. I watch things, listen to things, talk about things with people and they do the same. It's pretty much something everyone does, but it feels so important that you can add just a bit of the world and its ideas to people you know so much about.