Wednesday, 23 April 2014

The Future

To be honest I have no idea what I want to do with my life. At all. I get through college as easily as the next person and I feel like I'm actually starting to enjoy myself and fit in there. Until I have English but that's only for a few hours so it's not too bad. My favourite subject is, by far, psychology because I'm actually good at that and I understand the concepts of it a lot better than even the smartest person in my group. For a while I was considering the possibility of becoming a guidance counsellor because of my lessons on how the mind works and the fact that a lot of my friends have mental health problems that they talk to me about. I, as a person with no history of mental health problems, shouldn't be able to really understand what they're going through at the level that I do. This is why I wanted this career path. However, I'm now in the mind set of "I can't handle college and that amount of work never mind University". College and Uni have always been my chosen path in life. It's all I ever wanted to do but since September my attitude towards them has decreased. Is this a blip or my actual feelings? I don't have a clue. 
My very supportive boyfriend has been suggesting options for me based on what makes me happy like opening my own cafe. Which was actually a really good idea. I'd love to own my own cafe and my parents would be behind that (as they would anything I chose to do if it made me happy) because my mum owns her own hair salon. This would mean probably taking Business as an AS in September to replace English. As much as I would love my own business and run it how I wanted to, I can't help but wonder if maybe I should at least attempt to become a guidance counsellor. Helping people with their problems and giving them advice and being the person that they go to for someone to talk to is what I do every single day and I love it just as much as I love tea. The decision of what to do is forever on my mind and it's a tug-of-war that never picks a side.
I have a grand total of four people that I can fully open up to about this because I feel like the others, while trying to help, wouldn't really help all that well and that one certain person in particular would try and talk me out of going to Uni in the first place. I'm happy for everyone who does have a career path in mind and are determined to get there, I just wish I could actually pick something and stick to it. Kyle only suggested the business thing yesterday and it's already beginning to form into a real option for me. I just need to make sure that whatever I decide is going to be the best decision and is going to make me happy for the rest of my, hopefully, long and happy life.

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