“What do you want to be when you grow up?” is a question that we’re constantly asked as kids and are expected to have an answer for. And yet, do we ever stop to think about how absurd this is?
How in the world is a kid supposed to know what he or she truly wants to become when they haven’t even scratched the surface of life itself? It’s ironic, isn’t it? And yet, the irony doesn’t stop there, does it?
We continue to cling onto those childhood dreams of the past—falsely believing they truly are our calling—and try to forge them onto our way of life today. We size up circles we drew as a kid and attempt to fit them into the squares of the reality of adulthood, until one day we “give up” and simply succumb to our present circumstances and call it fate.
You stick to the job you hate because, hey, “this is the way life is; suck it up and carry onward.” You stick to the law career path you’ve fallen into even though deep down, it’s become evidently clear that it’s not the right path for you. You’ve changed—you now much prefer work that involves visual storytelling and videography, but hey, “this is the way life is; suck it up and carry onward.”
You’re stuck and I don’t blame you.
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