Grab your pen

Ever thought of your life in the third person, as if you were watching a movie? I often think of my life OUTrospectively, meaning that I feel at any given moment, like I am writing my own story, but I am a critic observing the work so far. With just a month or so until I graduate high school, I am starting to give more thought to my future. People have been asking me the question without cease since probably sophomore year. First comes the observation that I graduate whenever it is that I talk to them, and then, what I know I have coming to me... the question. It's almost always the same.

"So... What are you going to do?"

I'd like to ask them the same thing! But I'm not that rude.

So now you, reader, have got me. Now I have to answer the question. The truth is, I don't know what I'm going to do, and that's okay with me. It's okay because I'm going to tell you what I want.

Like what happened to Alice, I want fall down a rabbit hole. I want to launch myself into this big, wide world, and I never want things to be the same. I want to live in a community where I am the change that I want to see happen in church. I want to work hard and be compensated for it. I want to always stay closer with God than with any other human being. I want my convictions to point me in the right direction. I want to visit the places that I picture in my mind when I listen to songs and read books.

I could go on, but I would like to make a point. I think that people are often pressure by society and that question that people keep pounding into their mind, and so they feel they are forced to make a decision. I wouldn't mind if you made a career decision or big decision about your future if it was something God told you he specifically wanted you to do, but don't just pick something because the choice is there, don't just settle for a 9-5 job and a paycheck. Don't even settle for a wife and kids. Why live life like everyone else when you can change it? Why pluck one string when you can strum the guitar?