Guilty Pleasures of Life

26 | future

💫 Twenty-Sixth Pleasure 💫

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Being the most terrifying part of one's life, the future is indeed really important to all of us one way or another.

We're young and with tons of time in our hands, but with just a blink of an eye there it is. The sudden realization that you need to be something, anything.

This all links with our education.

Spiraling us into a world of knowledge, that is going to be evaluated by tests, assignments, teachers almost every day. A rather stressful process for all students who have gone through their school days. Unknowingly, three years of high school flash by so quickly as we find ourselves taking and passing our A levels.

Then what next?

We are thrown into the big world of adults in which we are supposed to choose a lifetime career. Mainly our source of income. The choice, however, is more difficult than ever as the eighteen-year-old person now labeled as a legal adult is stuck between many crossroads.

The future is near, yet so far and we cannot foresee its outcomes. However, sooner or later we need to make a choice.

There might be lots of things you want to try and do. Or maybe you're completely clueless with no motivation or ideas whatsoever. Decisions, decisions. Are what we get stuck on. Being pretty young and inexperienced doesn't really help that much either. But if everything fails we should be able to have a rundown of our situation. It's time for what I like to call a nice and detailed analysis.

I swear, I'm not trying to sound like your real career counseling teacher.

But since you're here and reading my rambling let's go. I think the first step is to start by being completely unbiased.

So, everything that you've heard and been told by others must be thrown completely away. Preferably into that been used for recycling. Yes, bizarre but it works.

Let's start with something new.

A career isn't always about using most of your educational knowledge. Even though it happens to be the first thing that employers look on one's CV. True, you need like 10% of it. But I've realized that not all mathematical theorems will actually help us in real life. However, they keep our brain healthy, while enticing our real-life logic.

We must put our main focus mainly into giving out the best of our potential and be driven by our inner passion.

These are what make a job less mundane and give it purpose.

Not a true shocker, but let me explain by you visually imagining an egg.

According to Laura Newman, one of the main inspirations from this chapter (thanks to TEDtalks ;) made a strange comparison about the above-mentioned qualities.

We are an egg. A big round one. The shell would be our hobbies, interest, talents, and knowledge basically the artificial part that can be learned, cultivated, or found year after year. The more we grow into learning the thicker the shell. While the yolk stood for our potential, all parts of us that are 100% fresh produce, but need constant care that they are always in full bloom.

The yolk is undoubtedly the best part of an egg. We need it to be yellow, bright, and fresh in order for the whole egg to be good. Otherwise, it's rotten.

So how do we find the good yolk?

By making it grow healthily since its early stage.

Maybe you're thinking of following your parents' path. Unless it's something that you love doing and enjoy then go ahead.

We must be able to choose on our own without any interference. It helps us be more independent. True, we were raised by them and their advice is always the best, but we can choose for ourselves. Perhaps a regret of the past or wish that couldn't become true, never be trapped in someone else's dream.

Money can't buy happiness. So, if your dream job doesn't necessarily have the same pay as another high landing job, you shouldn't be that discouraged. At least you'd probably feel better and providing for yourself in your own way.

Now things here get a bit confusing.
It's never wrong to think that following your interests can help you to find your path as it's something you love doing. However, this doesn't mean that this will always be your passion. It might be, but things aren't always set in stone.

People are bound to change and so do their likes, interests, etc because they change too. Like from wanting to become the fairy queen of the dimension of Soniala, you change your mind to become a doctor, or years later a painter. Or vice-versa. The options are endless and you're free to explore all the possibilities before you set on one decision.

Laura Neghman (I love you TEDtalks) took a pretty cool example. She had a friend who was confused just us when choosing his life path.

When he was a kid he wanted to be a magician. Later that desire morphed into being an architect.

Next, he wanted to be a guided tour for outdoors. Bet you didn't see that one coming, huh? A weird combination, pretty specific and particular too. But do wonder what do these have in common?

She said that the answer was simple. This friend wanted to amaze people.

It happens when a magician does a magic trick when an architect designs those amazing buildings, or when the tour guide gets to see the reactions of the tourists as they explore the wonders of nature.

That's what we all want to do, right? To inspire others, to make them feel in awe, so they can look up to us and say 'Wow I want to be like that!' and then you have this sense of accomplishment that fuels your determination.

It's the same as finding your purpose or figuring out your life goal.

Ah, my friend, you have found the key to unlocking your potential and passion. In the enormous and significant things from the sacrifices you do, to the lessons, you learn, to the mistakes you make, and also the experiences you live.

So let me say it again, I don't know what will happen with our asses tomorrow or the day after that as I ain't a fortune teller, but I hope that choosing your life path might have somewhat easier even if it's just 1% percent.