In my generation no one seems to know what they want to do with their lives anymore. I don't know why... I would want to know what I want to do when I'm out of high school, out of my parents' house. Then again, a lot of people believe that their parents will support them. My parents are going to support me, don't get me wrong. But they're not going to hand things over to me. How they're going to support me is let me stay home for a little longer. Reason being I'm not good at math... AT ALL. I can't do house payments, I don't know how to count out a budget. It's bad, I know. But math was and still isn't, my best subject. So my parents told me that they're going to let me stay home when I'm not at college and teach me how to do house payments and help me set up a budget. Even when I'm moved out and ready to be independent they'll be there for me. But with other kids in my school, even kids older than me, they expect their parents to pay for their house, food, whatever. They expect they won't have to go to college to get a career because their life is handed to them on a silver platter.
How I want my future to go is I'll graduate high school, and go to college to become a child welfare social worker, a child life specialist, or a journalist. I want to be successful in life one way or another. I want to hopefully show people who maybe like me, they have a "disability" (how I look at hearing impairment or any "disability" is more like a unique trait that people have to stand out), that they're able to exceed expectations too. Whether it's being like me, with hearing impairment and overcoming odds whether it being not being able to talk, or being deaf, or whatever the case is for them. Or like one of my best friends, Sarah*, who's legally blind. She doesn't let any of it stop her and she has exceeded odds also. Whatever the case is I want people to be able to look at me or anybody who's overcome their "disability" and realize that just because a doctor says they won't be able to walk, or see, or speak, or whatever their case is... Doesn't mean it's true!
That, is how I want my future to be like, of course I'm not in control of what happens, God is, but I hope that my future is bright. But when I say what I want to do with my life in school... People laugh, or they say my parents are forcing me to be successful. But that's not true. Whilst my parents don't want me out on the streets with no success in life... They're not going to force me to be something I'm not.
This is honestly sad though, how these days people my own age believe that just because I know that things are not going to be handed to me that I'm being forced to go to college, that I'm being forced to have a successful career, that my parents are forcing me to be independent. It's sad that they're in denial and believing that their parents are just going to hand them things in life... It's all kind of pathetic in a way really.
That's all for now.
Olivia
* Sarah is not my friend's real name I'm simply using a fake name due to privacy. :)
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