Looking forward. Thinking Back.

 

I've reached a point in my life where decisions for the future are becoming prominent.
I've only got a month and a half left in secondary school and then it's basically all down to me, how I continue my life. It's pretty scary thinking about the future from where I'm at now. I feel like if I make a mistake in my choices, everything is going to just turn out crap.

When you're younger, the future always looks so bright. Remember that feeling, of being seven or eight and being asked what you wanted to be in the future. The incongruous ideas people had at that age. Astronauts, Wizards, Superheroes, etc. Not just those nonsensical future plans but the fact that, at the time, they seemed genuine possibilities. When do we lose that imaginative part of our planning? At what point exactly do we go through the transition of forgetting our biggest childhood dreams, and become the cynical students who want nothing more than the points to get that college course? It's understandable of course, that some people actually truely want to achieve their desired career paths. I just think people have lost sight of how life should be about embracing what you love and going for that which veraciously makes you happy. 

I've noticed a pattern in students, in my year for one. They want to become teachers, doctors, vets, beauticians, and so on. But I wonder if you asked them, if there was one thing you could do with your life, anything at all, what would it be? How many of them would actually say the career they've chosen to study?
It's my opinion that people have forgotten how to live. Nowadays, you see people's ambitions going as far as getting into college, getting a well-paid job, settling down, having kids. What happened to good old fashioned dreaming? Going out into the world with the intent to just live, embrace the moment. Live for yourself. Why do we have to conform to these trivial, everyday activities. How about trying something new everyday. It doesn't even have to be something monumental. it could be as easy as, changing the menu of your meals. At least you're experiencing something new. How about travelling? Getting to know the world you live in and not just the town or city you grew up in. There is so many places out there that are just waiting. 

Hats off to the people that are doing just that. Living for themselves. Not for a career. Or for a family.
It's not that they can't be involved. It's just people depend on them so much nowadays. It's bizarre.
All I know is, I want to just experience the world. I don't want to tie myself down and be stuck in this town for the rest of my life. I have dreams and ambitions of my own. They might seem whimsical and slightly out of reach but why not try?
That's what counts. Trying. 

So I can't say my decisions for the future will be all the right ones, or that they'll all work out. I can't know that I'm going to choose the right road to venture down. I can't assure myself on anything like that. But I'd like, in ten years time to look back and be able to say at least I did it. I took the chances. I got out there.
So here's to the future.