Inquiries of the elder
‘’What do you want to be when you grow up?’’ ‘’Do you prefer science or history?’’ ‘’What would you like to sudy?’’ … Are questions we have all heard growing up — coming from friends, parents, family members, teachers; even from people you’ve just met — these being considered simple questions, yet they are never as straight forward as they may seem. You might be wondering why I feel so strongly about what could be utter curiosity, and so I will explain.
Words usually said with a ‘’completely’’ harmless intention — and I am certain it will remain so — one of the main reasons why students, such as myself, have had such a difficult experience while trying to make the first life-changing decision that is left up to us. Being almost 18 years old is already hard enough; think about all the challenges growing up brings (especially during teenage years), then add some extra anxiety and stress caused by having to make a decision that will determine — at least — the next four years into the future.
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Something that startles me is the fact that most people haven’t even thought about what their future job will be — until they are basically forced to. I believe some have always known: future doctors, teachers, artists… but what about the rest of us? What about the vast majority of students who have no passion that can realistically be useful in the real world, as supposedly experienced and mature adults would like to call it. However, according to me (who am I to say this anyway), there is only one world — one life that we know of — the one where we are born in (even if several congregations would strongly disagree: truly sorry, Plato’s followers).
I like to think that You Only Live Once (YOLO, Carpe Diem and all that jazz…), so why waste how little time given to us on useless attempts to figure out a ‘’life’’ we will never be able to experience? We being the bodies that make up the Earth’s population, us, society, NOW!!!! We should worry about issues that we ARE able to fix: climate change, extreme poverty, war, corruption, racism, homophobia, gender inequality, the constant (insterg whatever the opposite of evolution is) of women’s rights!!
To sum up, I have completely forgotten about what I really wanted to talk about, which is basically this: OLD PEOPLE NEED TO LEAVE STUDENTS FIGURE OUT THEIR FUTURE BY THEMSELVES, MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS AND STAY OUT OF OURS!!!!
P.D: I’m sorry you had to read this, and if I’ve made any crazy mistakes I will say English is not my first language.
