I worry about my future. But why? Why do I feel the need to plan my life at 18 years old. Just because others know their goals, and think they have it worked out? They don’t. They’re 18. I just want to work at myself as I go. Obviously I don’t know what I want yet, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Even when I do figure out what I think I want to do, there will always be something pulling me in another direction. Something that creeps into my mind and manifests itself in my thought process causing me to pursue that very thing. Call it a phase, or call it life. There will always be that thing that causes you to second guess yourself, your motives, your decisions, and your life. It sucks. But why would I ever want end up like everybody else!? Wife and kids at 25? Hooray! Not… What have I accomplished? Nothing. I want to do something, not settle. I want to go somewhere, not settle. I’m ready to move on to bigger and better things. This is high school, not life. It’s definitely a right of passage, but the only thing that matters is the grades to get into that school of your dreams, not who’s the coolest, or most like able, or has the best physique. Life is bigger than you, and although none of us may think it, or want to think it, we hardly matter in the grand scheme of things. As a senior in high school I’ve thought a lot about who I WANT to be versus who I’m willing to be. Everyone says they’re going to move to New York, or travel the world, but they rarely do. Who dictates that? Who restricts me from living in that dream. I want to just go, without regard to what or who I’m leaving behind, and without the fear of what’ll happen when I get there. It’s a simple concept, but a very elusive and dreadful thing to actually accomplish. It’s possible though, and that’s what keeps my thinking about it. The possibilities in life for me are endless. If a leap of faith is what it takes to get there, then I’m all in.
Why worry?
We wouldn’t have an embassy in Iran. I wouldn’t allow that to be there.
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| — | Rep. Michele Bachmann, on how she wouldn’t allow a U.S. embassy in Iran if elected president. The U.S. hasn’t had an embassy in Iran in more than three decades. (via officialssay) |
