Hopes and Dreams
It's quite funny how, as children we always dream what we want to be when we grow up. How we are always impatient to grow up and do "grown up things" but more often than not. we find lose sight, we morph into something quite different from what we wanted to become and along with it anything that we wanted to do.
As a child I had different ambitions, often changing it quite frequently. At first I wanted to be a pilot, traverse across the skies into the never ending horizon, then it changed to an actor, I wanted to be in the limelight with a billion dollar income, a mansion, and stardom. Then just before leaving high school I wanted to save endangered animal, work for a good cause. Then I settled for doing law and now I want to work for a multinational company, even this may very well change along the way.
I still haven't met anyone who has stuck to their first ambition, it maybe because it is hard to forge your own path in this chaotic world, having to consider financial situation of your family, the number of job openings that is available, and basically any other issues that may play a role. After considering all these it is of little surprise to find that you are lost trying to figure out the cycle of life. Everyone these days are more concerned about finding the next buck than being true to yourself (including me) and it is funny because we are often promise our self with an obstinate will that we will never be forced into doing something that we don't particularly enjoy, but we forget that stripped of choice we end up doing just that.
I guess you prepare for that particular ambition or the next big thing but always bear in mind that life just may have other plans for you, you may not revel in its glory but you just might have do with it. Besides, it does bring you comfort to know that you are not the only one with the same problem, and I have frequently found that it helps to bitch about it with someone in a similar predicament.
As a child I had different ambitions, often changing it quite frequently. At first I wanted to be a pilot, traverse across the skies into the never ending horizon, then it changed to an actor, I wanted to be in the limelight with a billion dollar income, a mansion, and stardom. Then just before leaving high school I wanted to save endangered animal, work for a good cause. Then I settled for doing law and now I want to work for a multinational company, even this may very well change along the way.
I still haven't met anyone who has stuck to their first ambition, it maybe because it is hard to forge your own path in this chaotic world, having to consider financial situation of your family, the number of job openings that is available, and basically any other issues that may play a role. After considering all these it is of little surprise to find that you are lost trying to figure out the cycle of life. Everyone these days are more concerned about finding the next buck than being true to yourself (including me) and it is funny because we are often promise our self with an obstinate will that we will never be forced into doing something that we don't particularly enjoy, but we forget that stripped of choice we end up doing just that.
I guess you prepare for that particular ambition or the next big thing but always bear in mind that life just may have other plans for you, you may not revel in its glory but you just might have do with it. Besides, it does bring you comfort to know that you are not the only one with the same problem, and I have frequently found that it helps to bitch about it with someone in a similar predicament.
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