"Where are you going to college? What do you want to be? How many kids do you want?" Great. Another family party where I get heavy questions thrown at me. Not cool.
I'm just a teenager! Why do I have to have my entire life planned out? I don't. "you need to start thinking about college" blah blah blah, I have heard it a million times! As if college and my future is not on my mind every waking moment. The truth is, I'm not entirely sure what direction I want to go in, or where I see myself in 10 years. (For goodness sake I don't even know what I'm having for dinner tomorrow.) Journalist? Social worker? Astronaut? College drop-out? There are so many appealing careers! (P.s. don't tell my Indian parents about the last one, they would freak out.) I'm endlessly appreciative that I even have the opportunity to have an education here in America, but I have my entire life ahead of me so why do I have to have it all planned out now? Even if I do plan it out, chances are things will not go as planned because I will constantly change my mind, being the indecisive person that I am. The future scares me, but I do not want it to. I just want to be able to say, "Yeah, I'm not sure where I want to go, but wherever I do go, I know it will be somewhere great." So whoever is reading this and does not have it all planned out, don't worry. You don't have to.
I'm just a teenager! Why do I have to have my entire life planned out? I don't. "you need to start thinking about college" blah blah blah, I have heard it a million times! As if college and my future is not on my mind every waking moment. The truth is, I'm not entirely sure what direction I want to go in, or where I see myself in 10 years. (For goodness sake I don't even know what I'm having for dinner tomorrow.) Journalist? Social worker? Astronaut? College drop-out? There are so many appealing careers! (P.s. don't tell my Indian parents about the last one, they would freak out.) I'm endlessly appreciative that I even have the opportunity to have an education here in America, but I have my entire life ahead of me so why do I have to have it all planned out now? Even if I do plan it out, chances are things will not go as planned because I will constantly change my mind, being the indecisive person that I am. The future scares me, but I do not want it to. I just want to be able to say, "Yeah, I'm not sure where I want to go, but wherever I do go, I know it will be somewhere great." So whoever is reading this and does not have it all planned out, don't worry. You don't have to.