Where Will I Be In Ten Years

Where will I be in ten years? This is a question I often reflectively pose to myself. How can one simple question, containing just seven little words, be full of such endless possibilities and outcomes? Ten years ago, I would not have said that I would be a full time student, on my way to earning a degree in Sociology. Ten years ago I was still in my career of choice, truck driving. One could say I was just “spinning my wheels”, so to speak. A truck driver is certainly not something I had aspired to become when I got out of high school, but as we all know, life is a series of multiple choice questions with no right or wrong answer. Each answer edges us toward our next choice. In the end, we can worry about previous choices, or we can continue to look forward, make the best of things, and try to constantly improve. Occasionally, a perfect storm of events can culminate together and create new opportunities. This is what happened to me, but I must start at the beginning of this short saga; or …show more content…
I began to get mad. I started to think about how much of my childhood was spent in absolute fear and self-loathing because of the crazy teachings I received as a child, and how religion indirectly tortured my father when he was a child. My parents fought all the time and they stayed together, all in the name of mythology. I thought about all the other people that had suffered as I had. Like the ripples in a pond after tossing a stone in, I started to think about the ripples in society caused by the stones of mythology and superstition. I began to think about other children around the world who are tortured physically and emotionally by a belief in mythology. I decided that, while no one person can change society, we all can contribute to its directional change in our own way. I want to help bring the introduction of rational thought to