It was just an average day when I decided what I wanted to do with my life. I was doing some research for a school project when I stumbled upon this profession. It was love at first sight. Some people know what they want to be when they grow up at a young age or know for a few years prior to college. I'm not one of those people, and that is OK. I did a lot of research on this career and knew that is what I wanted my life to become. It was a feeling I had never felt before. It was as if I stumbled upon a pot of gold. I became so fascinated and passionate about something that came into my life at an unexpected moment. It is something I am still in love with. In fact, I haven't questioned my major since. My major combines my favorite things all into one. It's a dream of mine to succeed in my field of choice, and to be the best I can be. With choosing a major, however, is when the questioning and criticism begins.

"Are you sure you want to do that?" "Will you make a lot of money?" "What will you even do with that major?" "What if it doesn't work out?" "Where will you find employment with that job?" The questions could go on for years. If I had a dollar (maybe even a quarter) for how much I have been questioned or criticized for my major I wouldn't have to go to school or would make more money than my career would. Other have tried to persuade me numerous times to go a different direction, but those didn't catch my eye or my heart like the one I already have did. Nothing will ever compare to me. Maybe with another job I could move to somewhere nice, live in a big house, and swim in money, What's the point if I wouldn't find passion in it?

To find a major or career that you love means to wake up every day and not regret the decision you made for yourself. You accept what comes with it. The hard work, the stress and tears, the life-changing moments, and whatever payment you can get from it. My #1 goal in life is to change someone's life for the better and to make a difference. The love you have for what you do should be the same love you feel for your dog, for summer vacation, or pizza. This love is unconditional and undeniable.

If you don't agree with what I choose to do with my life, I am not sorry. It is my life, and I am an adult who is capable of making her own decisions. Yes, I appreciate the concern you may have, but at the end of the day, you can't take a hold of my destiny.

You can't stop me from dreaming, and you can't stop me from living my life.

To those out there with the complicated majors — the doctors, the artists, the musicians, the mass communicators, the dreamers.