"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… princess. When we were ten, they asked again and we answered - rock star, cowboy, or in my case, gold medalist. But now that we've grown up, they want a serious answer. Well, how 'bout this: who the hell knows?! This isn't the time to make hard and fast decisions, its time to make mistakes. Take the wrong train and get stuck somewhere chill. Fall in love - a lot. Major in philosophy 'cause there's no way to make a career out of that'. Change your mind. Then change it again, because nothing is permanent. So make as many mistakes as you can. That way, someday, when they ask again what we want to be… we won't have to guess. We'll know."
For a lot of us, we are born into families that obviously want to provide us with a better version of what they went through growing up. They make sacrifices and work as hard as they can to put us through school, the perfect and preferred child is the one who diligently goes through the schooling process and later goes to university and takes on a professional degree...you know become a doctor, lawyer or accountant. Start work and make money, get married have kids and repeat the cycle. This simply cannot be all of what life is made out of.
I believe in passions, I believe in trying things I've never done before, going to different places, meeting different people, because it's in trying things that we get to know what we like and don't like, what we want and dont want. I also know that we cannot experience every single thing and go to every single place, but to as far as you can help it, go-experience. Don't be afraid of changing your mind, challenge everything, ask why and move fully in the direction you choose.
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