Recently I decided to take time out of my everyday life to try and figure out objectives for what I want to do with my life. This may be during the week, month, or the rest of the years to come. Whatever I do though I make sure that it helps support my morals and overall makes me happy in life. I think a lot of our society today does what we have to do and not what we want to do. Don’t get me wrong, sometimes you have to do things that you don’t want to do but sometimes we have the option between doing something that other people want us to do do and doing something that genuinely makes you happy because it made you understand who you are as a person. It isn’t easy to find yourself because there is so much to find. You may do a sport for three years of your life and then figure out that you don’t even want to pursue it in years to come. That’s the beauty in finding yourself.
A lot of people like to be small, to never expand something they would want to do because it takes time or because they think they are supposed to do something else. About a year ago I started making videos. I didn’t make them for other people or to become famous, I did it simply because it made me happy. It kept my creative side that I thought I had lost, expand and reach to heights I didn’t know it could. One of my friends recently told me they wanted to go into photography as their major but probably wouldn’t do it because it wasn’t stable and their parents didn’t think it was a good idea. I asked them what they would go into instead and they said maybe a dentist because it makes more money. This is so common and accepted in out society. To give up something you love because it isn’t stable, doesn’t make enough money, and someone along the way said that you weren’t good enough for it.
Why is this accepted in our generation?
This is something that people need to change in their life in order to find themselves and enjoy finding themselves. There are going to be people who tell you that you aren’t good enough and those are the people that make you want to do it more. This may sound like a very clique article about reaching for the stars and doing what you want but it is easier said than done. I mainly want to reach out to the people who were told they couldn’t do something that would help find themselves and make them pursue it. We should be confined in small boxes to activities that are “stable”. Stable is boring and leads to unhappiness. Our society now needs to decide if they are going to stay in boxes or jump out to become something greater.
