My name is Colin Widrick and I am currently a Freshman at the University of Mary Washington. I am on a Pre-Medical path and my goal is to become a Psychiatrist in the future.
In my personal life I enjoy philosophy, playing guitar, playing basketball, and exploring nature.
This page is a collection of reviews, essays, and analysis of various topics concerning my interests.
The only real expectations are the ones you place on yourself.
The world doesn’t place any expectations on us. We accept the world’s expectations and put them on ourselves. The only one who can judge you is you. You are the only one who truly knows who you are. Every passing moment and interaction must be taken in and accepted by you. Sometimes we feel our situation is inherent to our character, but most of the time it is not. Our character is intrinsic to the energy we put into ourselves and being present while doing so. To truly be present we must be careful about what we take in. Because what we take in is what we become. And by saying this I don’t mean to stay guarded and push all external opinions out, I mean quite the opposite. We must take in life worry-free of external expectations. I think we take external expectations personally because we expect validation from the outside to support what we hold within when it should be the other way around. We must validate ourselves before we look at the world with the same view. I believe how we see ourselves is how we see the world. And if we put our energy into external things and don’t get anything back we fall to pieces. So we must redirect our energy in, to build a strong foundation to provide other people, activities, and jobs sufficient energy to avoid sacrificing ourselves.
Colin Widrick
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Control is what Shackles.
What you try to control, controls you. In our attempt to dictate a situation we can only really influence it. I feel the obsession with an outcome is what truly binds us. We must realize things can only be as they are, and if we are catering our reactions to that thing, we are not dictating it, it is dictating us. Destroying the boxes we put things in allows us to take the focus off the the control we desire and refocus on the thing itself. It ceases to be about joy and becomes a search for the past, when truly there is only the present. And Im not saying it is not important to value past events, but we must make the distinction of what is reality and what is the reality we create based on our feeling. We try to dictate a certain circumstance to maintain a certain viewpoint we have. We want it to fall in line with our perspective instead of just allowing for it to be what it is. When we live like this, we live in reference, and to live in reference is to cease being the subject of your own life. We must give ourselves the grace to have an open perspective on the world.