As a child, everything in the world seems so clearly black and white. It seems like everyone just naturally gets older, goes to college because they have to, and work wherever they and up. Then I myself got older and started to question: But why do I need to go to college? What’s so great about it? It got worse when I went along and realized that I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, had no idea what I even wanted to go to college for. This then resulted in years of me being anxious, not knowing what I wanted my future to look like. While I never had any typical movie lightbulb moment that suddenly shed light on what exactly I wanted to do, I came to a series of realizations over time. While for years I struggled to come to a decision,
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I liked animals, so it seemed like the perfect job. When I realized that being a vet wasn’t for me, I started to panic a little. I didn’t have any sort of second plan at all. I was hoping that one day something inside of me would just click and I would see my new plan appear right in front of me, but that never happened. There’s no big, grand story of a magical moment where I suddenly realized what exactly I wanted to be my future to be like. Part of the reasoning behind this is that to this very day, I still don’t know the answer to that question. But there did come a time when I realized that I should just examine my passions and figure out which one I could see myself spending my life centred …show more content…
There may also always be the little voice in the back of my head telling me to get away while I can, that people are laughing at me when I turn my back and are just waiting for me to fail, that there’s no way I can succeed in this, I also know that I can work past that little voice. I know my future lies somewhere in working with the environment and I’m not going to let anything stop me from reaching that discovery and working to earn it. I’m going to college because I know that’s how I’m going to make my goal possible: Getting the experience, getting the degree, getting the career. It may not be as simple as I pictured it being as a child, but I’m going to make it happen somehow,
I liked animals, so it seemed like the perfect job. When I realized that being a vet wasn’t for me, I started to panic a little. I didn’t have any sort of second plan at all. I was hoping that one day something inside of me would just click and I would see my new plan appear right in front of me, but that never happened. There’s no big, grand story of a magical moment where I suddenly realized what exactly I wanted to be my future to be like. Part of the reasoning behind this is that to this very day, I still don’t know the answer to that question. But there did come a time when I realized that I should just examine my passions and figure out which one I could see myself spending my life centred …show more content…
There may also always be the little voice in the back of my head telling me to get away while I can, that people are laughing at me when I turn my back and are just waiting for me to fail, that there’s no way I can succeed in this, I also know that I can work past that little voice. I know my future lies somewhere in working with the environment and I’m not going to let anything stop me from reaching that discovery and working to earn it. I’m going to college because I know that’s how I’m going to make my goal possible: Getting the experience, getting the degree, getting the career. It may not be as simple as I pictured it being as a child, but I’m going to make it happen somehow,