There have been countless times when people asked me the same question over and over again for the past seventeen years.
"What do you want to be when you grow up?" And each time, every moment that I gave an answer, I felt absolutely sure of it. When I was young, maybe around five or six years old, they asked me. And kids my age would probably answer princess, an astronaut, a firefighter or in my case, and international pop sensation. When I was ten, they asked again. And we probably answered doctor, veterinarian, teacher or like me, an actress. When I reached the age of thirteen or fourteen, they asked me again and I had two answers that were very different from each other. I wanted to be a psychologist and a flight stewardess. Years passed by and I discovered a few more options. I fell deeply in love with writing and considered it to be my future profession, I still wanted to be a psychologist and a flight attendant, I wanted to continue and enhance my skills in the field of music and dreamed of being known for my works in the music industry. And now that I am at the age where people take very seriously the answer you give to them when they ask the same dreaded question, I started to feel lost. I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grow up. I felt so much pressure because most of my friends knew what they wanted in life and I didn't. I had so many things in mind that I wanted to do which makes me feel like I'm going insane and that I'll never get my life on track because I still can't answer the same damn question; what do I want to be when I grow up? I am now seventeen and they want a serious answer. Well, how about this? WHO KNOWS? This isn't the moment or time to make hard and fast decisions. This is the time to create experiences and mistakes. Get lost somewhere, fall in love a lot, get your heart broken, do something you thought you'd never do. Change your mind and change it again and just explore. Don't rush things. So that when the time comes and they ask us again, we won't have to guess. We'll know.
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