Pressure about my future !
This morning I woke up and asked myself “what could I write my rant about”. I was brainstorming between ideas and then it hit me. I decided to write my rant about the pressure society puts on someone my age. So I am a teenager and I couldn’t be more pressured. With all the ideas society gives parents these days parents expect their child to be at least a doctor or a lawyer. And don’t understand me wrong I have nothing against reaching for the stars but I don’t think the decisions over my future should be in anyone else’s hands(not even my parent). Now I know that most parents are just trying to push their child in the right direction, but I don’t think putting all this pressure on him will actually help. It could even get worse, your child could be afraid to tell you the truth because he is afraid to disappoint you. Now do you really want your child to suffer in silence just so you could feel calmer with yourself?
I think not..
Of course I know that most parent want only the best for their child and sometimes the child agrees with the parents and have they have the same view on life, and I think that’s great . But at times what parents think is best for the might not actually be the best for the child. So what happens when the child disagrees with parents, what happens when they don’t share the same view on life?
So parents might say “so you tell me what you want to do” (without actually meaning it). So most teens don’t have an exact plan for their future, so what?
I have got a whole lifetime to figure this out, so why pressure me now? And don’t get me wrong, I am not saying throw your future away but I think you should enjoy life while you’re still young. Party, meet new people, travel the world, find a job you are passionate about , fall in love and do stuff you are probably going to regret the next day because you only live once.
At this most readers will think that I am against a “save “ or “secure” life but I am really not. At some point I want to have a live like that but not at this point. I think that hard work and dedication is the way to go but only if you are doing it for something you are passionate about. If you want to waste your life and work at something that you know won’t make you want to get out of bed in the morning then why do it. For a decent salary? Why not just do something you love and develop something around it?
I don’t want to live and at some point think of all the things I didn’t do because I didn’t have the guts to do them. And if that interferes with my parents look on the “perfect life “ then so be it. Sooner or later we all grow old and think of all the stuff we did when we were young, and when I sit in that old rocking chair with my grandchildren I want tell them that their grandfather did great things, I don’t want them to see him just as another old guy with no teeth.
This morning I woke up and asked myself “what could I write my rant about”. I was brainstorming between ideas and then it hit me. I decided to write my rant about the pressure society puts on someone my age. So I am a teenager and I couldn’t be more pressured. With all the ideas society gives parents these days parents expect their child to be at least a doctor or a lawyer. And don’t understand me wrong I have nothing against reaching for the stars but I don’t think the decisions over my future should be in anyone else’s hands(not even my parent). Now I know that most parents are just trying to push their child in the right direction, but I don’t think putting all this pressure on him will actually help. It could even get worse, your child could be afraid to tell you the truth because he is afraid to disappoint you. Now do you really want your child to suffer in silence just so you could feel calmer with yourself?
I think not..
Of course I know that most parent want only the best for their child and sometimes the child agrees with the parents and have they have the same view on life, and I think that’s great . But at times what parents think is best for the might not actually be the best for the child. So what happens when the child disagrees with parents, what happens when they don’t share the same view on life?
So parents might say “so you tell me what you want to do” (without actually meaning it). So most teens don’t have an exact plan for their future, so what?
I have got a whole lifetime to figure this out, so why pressure me now? And don’t get me wrong, I am not saying throw your future away but I think you should enjoy life while you’re still young. Party, meet new people, travel the world, find a job you are passionate about , fall in love and do stuff you are probably going to regret the next day because you only live once.
At this most readers will think that I am against a “save “ or “secure” life but I am really not. At some point I want to have a live like that but not at this point. I think that hard work and dedication is the way to go but only if you are doing it for something you are passionate about. If you want to waste your life and work at something that you know won’t make you want to get out of bed in the morning then why do it. For a decent salary? Why not just do something you love and develop something around it?
I don’t want to live and at some point think of all the things I didn’t do because I didn’t have the guts to do them. And if that interferes with my parents look on the “perfect life “ then so be it. Sooner or later we all grow old and think of all the stuff we did when we were young, and when I sit in that old rocking chair with my grandchildren I want tell them that their grandfather did great things, I don’t want them to see him just as another old guy with no teeth.
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