Kimmy
19-09-2014, 05:54 PM
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When I first found my voice, I wanted nothing more than to grow up and be a popstar. I'd dress myself up in my Halloween devil outfit, because my dad once told me it looked like a rockstar. I'd use the Singstar mic to prance around the house, and whenever my dad had his video cameras out I'd be in front of it, stealing my brother's thunder. It's weird to think that I was once quite the obnoxious child, but eventually calmed down to the shy, awkward being I am now.
Reorienting back to the subject at hand, when I grew out of early childhood and started school, I admired my teachers. I admired how they 'knew everything' and guessed this came from simply being a teacher. And so, of course, I wanted to be a teacher. A boy in my class wanted to be a footballer. Another girl wanted to be a scientist, and the diverse list of everyone's dreams and occupations grew and fluctuated as years passed and went.
High school, I wasn't so sure. I attended a firefighting course for fun and pretty much enjoyed it. For a while I wanted to be a firefighter, before I remembered how useless I am at any form of physical activity. I wanted to teach English, until I saw the miserable faces of my teachers as they laboriously marked every essay they got.
As school progressed, I found it harder and harder to decide what I want to be when I get older. I didn't want to look back on my youth and regret everything I'd done, or not done. I want more than anything from life to be content and happy. Exams were hard. Hard time, hard work, hard everything. I wanted to spend the right time with the right people to get to the right places, but the more I tried to figure out how to take that step, the harder it was to understand how.
And now here I am, on the edge of making decisions that'll influence my whole life while I'm still in my late adolescent years. It doesn't seem right, no? I refuse to tell anyone what I want to be when I graduate from university because in thirty years time I don't want to be stuck in a dead-end job with a dead-end life because I was forced to make a decision when I was still a child. That's what we all are. Children. Children being forced into making adult decisions.
I don't want to compare myself to the science girl, or the football guy because their qualities and attributes already line them up to be something good. Even then, I don't want to take the things I can do and fool myself into thinking it's what I have to do. But then I wonder when is the right time to finally make up your mind. Too late will always be too late, and too early will leave you looking back wistfully wishing you'd taken that risk at doing something new. What's more important in life, truly. Is it finding your feet and then a job, or finding a job and then your feet?
Should we be spending our adolescence making memories, or making decisions?
Tell me when you think the right time is to make decisions, and if you've already made them, what are you aspirations and goals in life?
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When I first found my voice, I wanted nothing more than to grow up and be a popstar. I'd dress myself up in my Halloween devil outfit, because my dad once told me it looked like a rockstar. I'd use the Singstar mic to prance around the house, and whenever my dad had his video cameras out I'd be in front of it, stealing my brother's thunder. It's weird to think that I was once quite the obnoxious child, but eventually calmed down to the shy, awkward being I am now.
Reorienting back to the subject at hand, when I grew out of early childhood and started school, I admired my teachers. I admired how they 'knew everything' and guessed this came from simply being a teacher. And so, of course, I wanted to be a teacher. A boy in my class wanted to be a footballer. Another girl wanted to be a scientist, and the diverse list of everyone's dreams and occupations grew and fluctuated as years passed and went.
High school, I wasn't so sure. I attended a firefighting course for fun and pretty much enjoyed it. For a while I wanted to be a firefighter, before I remembered how useless I am at any form of physical activity. I wanted to teach English, until I saw the miserable faces of my teachers as they laboriously marked every essay they got.
As school progressed, I found it harder and harder to decide what I want to be when I get older. I didn't want to look back on my youth and regret everything I'd done, or not done. I want more than anything from life to be content and happy. Exams were hard. Hard time, hard work, hard everything. I wanted to spend the right time with the right people to get to the right places, but the more I tried to figure out how to take that step, the harder it was to understand how.
And now here I am, on the edge of making decisions that'll influence my whole life while I'm still in my late adolescent years. It doesn't seem right, no? I refuse to tell anyone what I want to be when I graduate from university because in thirty years time I don't want to be stuck in a dead-end job with a dead-end life because I was forced to make a decision when I was still a child. That's what we all are. Children. Children being forced into making adult decisions.
I don't want to compare myself to the science girl, or the football guy because their qualities and attributes already line them up to be something good. Even then, I don't want to take the things I can do and fool myself into thinking it's what I have to do. But then I wonder when is the right time to finally make up your mind. Too late will always be too late, and too early will leave you looking back wistfully wishing you'd taken that risk at doing something new. What's more important in life, truly. Is it finding your feet and then a job, or finding a job and then your feet?
Should we be spending our adolescence making memories, or making decisions?
Tell me when you think the right time is to make decisions, and if you've already made them, what are you aspirations and goals in life?
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Thread moved by mdport. (Forum Moderator) from 'Current Affairs' as it is better suited here!