Wait...what?

I'm sure the very small amount of people that have read the title of this blog have wondered, "What the hell is a Leanderthal?". Well wonder no more, as I am here to tell you. It's a creative little name my lovely sister came up with. At first I was a little offended, but I thought about it and decided I really like it. As a "young adult"(I hate that term, it sounds like an awful clothing department in JCPenny) in college, I often find myself grappling with questions of how to proceed into the future. Thoughts such as "should I take business law or intro to business analytics next semester?", "which macroeconomics professor is the best/easiest?", "if I go to the people-currently-saving-the-world meeting, discover there's no food and leave right away, does that make me an awful person?", "What am I going to major in????", and my personal favorite "DEAR GOD WHAT AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE??!". But I've found that only time will reveal the answer to the questions constantly careening through my mind. So, like the Neanderthal, I will eventually learn to use tools, walk more upright, maybe become less hairy, and maybe, just maybe, I'll become a highly functioning member of society. I mean, isn't that why I'm going to college?

But seriously, I never cease to be amazed to look back at where or what I thought I would be a year or two ago and see just how far off I was. Hell, last week I thought I would be a different person than the one I am today. My point is, the Neanderthal didn't know he was evolving until he saw a monkey who looked remarkably similar to him, and too often I don't realize how much my perspectives and goals change until I'm reminded of what they used to be.

So here's to evolving, nature moving us forcefully forward while we wallow in our own thoughts.

Now go and discover fire,

Leah

P.S- as much as some people hate the idea of changing and not being able to do anything about it, can we all agree that evolution did us all a favor by getting rid of human tails?