CL MINOR PROJECT
Everyone has been filling out application forms for college, stressing about entrance tests, and talking about their desired courses that will lead them to the job and life that they aspire to have. It is both frightening and saddening to think that up until today, I am not quite sure about the exact path that I will be taking in the future. Right now, the future is one hazy picture that now matter how hard I try, I cant seem to see clearly. And when I lie awake at night, and that thought passes through my brain, I am truly scared.
What's your dream job? What and Why are you taking up that course? What do you wanna do for the rest of your life? Those are the questions that are usually asked to seniors like me. It's not like I've been busy my whole life that I haven't had the time to think about the answers to those questions. Believe me, I allot a pretty good amount of my time trying to come up of answers to those questions. My Mom and Dad would always remind me that money or income shouldn't be a big factor when choosing a job. What's really crucial is that you love what you're doing. If you choose a job that you're not passionate about, then the rest of your life will become one dragging chore. But if you choose a job that makes you happy, you will wake up every single day excited to go to work, and it will just feel like you're living your dream. If you're passionate about something, the most natural thing is to be great at it. Money will come later; the vigor for what you're doing should always come first. Those are the things that my parents put through my head whenever I think about the future.
Although the picture is blurry, I do have a slight idea on what it's all about. Like I mentioned, my interests play a major part. I'm drawn towards food, traveling, and meeting new people and interacting with them. I do not know the exact job that will satisfy my sentiments, but I want it to include these three. My friends always say that they see me studying culinary arts somewhere abroad, or writing a food column in a magazine. Both sound very appealing to me because I love to travel and I love to constantly eat or make something to eat. I dream to endlessly meet new people, so that I will be awakened to what's happening out there. I don't want to be stuck in my own bubble. I need to be able to interact with all sorts of people. I also dream to touch people's hearts with food. Scrumptious food really turns my frown upside down, and it would be amazing if I could do that to someone else. Moments like these suddenly perk my hopes up because I KNOW. But then reality sinks in that I still don't know the exact career that I want for myself, and suddenly I'm troubled again.
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet. After a lot of reflecting, I believe that God destined me to stumble upon this quote. I am happy with being undecided, because most of the time, the beauty is in the journey of trying to find the answers.
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