"What do you want to do in life?"
This is the classic question that teens are asked, but does any of them have the answer. And when they have the answer, are critized for having the wrong one that parents want to hear?
I was just asked this upon happily saying I was selected in partaking in a Hospitality/Cooking class. Then the famous question, and I answered back,
"I really don't know. How can you ask me such a difficult question that will determine the rest of my life? Things change, intrests change, and what I chose now might not be what I want in 15 years. How can I just answer that?"
I recived this back, "I know, I was there too. I was asked the same thing."
I just wanted to scream back, and tell her that the life she is living now was definately different from her answer back in high school.
Either way, kids, I don't think have the ability to chose something so complex as this. I know that no one else can chose for them, but people should just do the best they can now. They should live in the present and not focus all of their attention on their futures.
Maybe I'm wrong, but that's what I believe and I'm staying with it.
This is the classic question that teens are asked, but does any of them have the answer. And when they have the answer, are critized for having the wrong one that parents want to hear?
I was just asked this upon happily saying I was selected in partaking in a Hospitality/Cooking class. Then the famous question, and I answered back,
"I really don't know. How can you ask me such a difficult question that will determine the rest of my life? Things change, intrests change, and what I chose now might not be what I want in 15 years. How can I just answer that?"
I recived this back, "I know, I was there too. I was asked the same thing."
I just wanted to scream back, and tell her that the life she is living now was definately different from her answer back in high school.
Either way, kids, I don't think have the ability to chose something so complex as this. I know that no one else can chose for them, but people should just do the best they can now. They should live in the present and not focus all of their attention on their futures.
Maybe I'm wrong, but that's what I believe and I'm staying with it.
