When I was in college, I was an idealist. I am a different person from the rest, I am able to influence people, I can change the world. Heck, the motto of my college is Why not change the world? That further strengthen my idealist nature and prosper me on to be better at what I do, excel in my education and come out a catalyst for change, a reformer. 

Yet another characteristic of mine is that I am observant. I realize that people who have gone through my stage, shown promise of change and immense potential to fix the world, have all faded away, diluted into the society once they graduate. They just settle, and blend in. The result, nothing changes, the ills and disparity of the society remains the same, and the brilliant minds became conditioned to the normal wants of a normal person: career, family, property, survival. 

Nothing of the word change came about and the status quo remains. How do we solve this problem? I do not blame them for settling. You need to keep the fire lighted up, but reality is you need to bring food to the table. And the latter, is much more urgent. So, we refocused our energy to ourselves, keeping our goals and ideals at the bottom of our to do lists, and the truth is, we never got to the bottom of the list where we realized our college ideals.

I recently graduated, and I will become diluted. I will focus my energy to myself and for myself, and the ideas to fix or at least close down the disparity of the social enigma and cultural restraints, will die. Why? because I am forced to. When your survival depends on your own hard work, you tend to be selfish about it. And this is where the problem lies. 

Before you go on to change the world, you must change yourself. And before you go on to change yourself, you need the capacity and ability to do it. And to do that, you must be comfortable in life, and not working for survival. This is why college idealism dies, and this is the phase where an idealist me, becomes a realists me.