Word: feared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have applied to jobs, been interviewed and offered positions only to pull out at the last minute in fear--fear of accepting the fact that I must choose, that I cannot be everywhere and everything. I have nothing to do next year because I am not yet willing to channel myself in a direction that will mark me, limit me and steer me forever. Yes, you can quit your job. You can go back to school. You can move to a new continent. But you cannot recover the past. You cannot ever get back on the highest diving board, clean...
...which generated the most response was one last fall titled "Ready for the Real World," in which I listed all the things I was sick of at Harvard. The point was that I had been here long enough and was ready to graduate. Although some contacted me in fear that I was seriously depressed, many more said "Right on!" or "You hit the nail on the head." I suppose I tapped into a broad sense of frustration among many students, a general fatigue with Harvard life. Nonetheless, somewhere in that column I predicted that a time would come this year...
...will never again be simply students facing a world of worlds yet to be entered. We may be frustrated with having to choose one world, leaving others unexplored for the moment. We may be scared about going somewhere, knowing that we will never come back the same. But this fear, this frustration, this choice--having these is the greatest privilege...
...while Big Brother may not yet be watching us, as the millennium approaches experts say we should still fear Atwood's vision...
Lewis says he avoids publicizing the prophecies of his crystal ball for fear they will be taken too seriously...