With Christmas break fast approaching, you are bound to be asked the dreaded question of "what do you want to do you with your life?" You shyly answer with the appropriate response “Oh I don’t know, I’m still trying to figure that out.” But on the inside, you are screaming “I HAVE NO CLUE JUST LEAVE ME ALONE AND DON’T ASK ME THAT.” Because really, who wants to be asked this question if you STILL don’t know what you want to do? I’m stressed enough trying to figure out my life, don’t prompt me with questions that I don’t know the answer to.
But whenever this question is asked, I am brought back to my Twilight obsession days. In these hit vampire movies, one of the characters gives a speech at their graduation about knowing what one wants to do with their life. Jessica, one of Bella’s friends, starts off her valedictorian speech as so:
“When we were five, they asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up. Our answers were things like astronaut, President, or in my case a princess. When we were ten, they asked again. We answered rock star, cowboy, or in my case a gold medalist. But now that we’ve grown up, they want a serious answer. Well, how about this - who the hell knows?”
I’m pretty sure that those who don’t know what they want to do just yet can say that this quote is a perfect representation of how we are feeling. Jessica then goes on saying how post-graduation isn’t the time to make hard and fast decisions but as the time to make mistakes. She is saying that we can change our minds over and over because nothing’s permanent. That way when the day comes that someone asks what you want to be; you won’t have to guess-you’ll know.
Trying to figure out your life at such a young age is VERY stressful. And in a way I envy those who know what they want to do right off the bat. They seem to have everything in order and under control while I’m over here trying to base my life off of online personality tests. But I need to stop worrying and just live my life. I need to keep changing my mind again and again because nothing is permanent. I can base what I want to do with my life off of my decisions while learning from my mistakes. I’m only 18, so who says I am supposed to know what I want to do just yet? I am going to keep living my life while figuring out what I want to do along the way. That way, when I’m older, and I’m asked this question; I wont have to guess- I’ll know.
