What’s Your Why? What’s Your Orange?
Posted December 16th, 2013 by filiped“Submitted by Devereaux Filipe”
What’s Your Why? What’s Your Orange?
Being orange… What does it mean to be orange? Is it a value our school puts on a pedestal? Is it just statement that makes the students of OSU feel a sense of community? It could represent our schools strategic plan that values accountability, diversity integrity, respect, and social responsibility? Well that’s interesting because the OSU strategic plan just summed up our ethics class. It contains the importance of knowledge, responsibility, community, citizenship, and being good.
In the world of psychology orange represents our gut instinct or gut reaction, going after your dreams and not looking back. Orange is a positive color the represents optimism and relates to keeping us motivated and helping us look on the bright side of life during tough times. Try to think of anything negative that has to do with the color orange. It is definitely a tough task. It also relates to adventure, risk-taking, confidence, competition, and independence.
The funny thing is to me being orange is much more then a set a values, or a sense of community because you are doing what your suppose to do. I believe being orange is more of an ideal, and emotional connection to our self and our school. All these other answers to what it means to be orange our based on group for example “the students of OSU are different, we different races, religions, backgrounds” well so does every other college in the world.
We go to school, of course we are held accountable for our actions we pay money to be here they don’t pay us, it’s our job to be honest and respect one another we have been taught that since we were born, and responsibility, if we weren’t responsible we would’ve never put in the effort to be here. What I am trying to say is being orange is not our duty as students it’s not our job, it’s not something that we can be taught, it’s a choice, it’s our individual why.
Why we worked so hard to get good grades in high school so we can get accepted here, why we get up for early morning classes when we don’t have to, why we study long hours just to make sure our teacher believes we work hard even though we ain’t going to remember half the stuff we learn anyways, why we choose to be here, why we want to succeed as a student here at OSU. To me being orange is being you… being a teacher who stays up late to correct exams losing precious family time, being a student far away from home fighting to be somebody who will change the world, or being an athlete working hard on and off the field to prove something.
Being orange is being motivated, being passionate, being a believer, having faith in why you choose to be here no matter how tough it gets, being orange following your dreams even your the only one who believes in it. Being orange is more than some values written on paper, being orange is being you, becoming who want to be, it’s what drives you, because you believe in yourself and your dreams. Being orange represents your why, your reason for doing what you do every day, so tell me what you want to be?
What’s your why? What’s your orange?
