Future Me

My future. How do I see myself in three years? What college will I attend? What will I be doing in this exact moment? These are just some of many questions that make up my mind, regarding hard decisions I am still not ready to pick and choose. Do I just let life pick it for me, while I rest – no action is taken? Or do I prepare myself and work hard to find the ideal college and ideal courses, which reflect my personality and my interests? I’ll go with the second option, especially because I disguise, during some occasions, the fact of “letting life be” and not “distorting” was is necessary. Imagine if you just sat there and, when you realize, it’s already time to decide your pathway. The problem, then, will arise; and, due to the not enough time spent in research, there is a higher chance of your chose to be an indiscriminate one, based on pressure. What will you do if you were to be put in that situation? I would just crash and not know what to do; that’s why early preparation and research need to be done. One that will be provided by the Academic Leadership course, for example, is the vocational test: a test that helps those who quite don’t know what profession they want to exceed in. This is one of my biggest fears. Because I love many of my academic subjects and succeed in them, I don’t know which ones I want to focus. Although in American colleges alumnus’ can change their major courses if wished or disliked, they still need to have some kind of idea in mind of what one’s role might be. I fear that my choice will be an incorrect one, especially because I tend to change my mind and to get convinced quickly. 

I sometimes daydream and visualize the Future Me. This image includes the following: me walking out off a classroom, in an American college, crossing a hallway, in order to reach the known “dorm”. I, then, get my bicycle and pedal until a coffee shop, before reaching my homelike space, which is shared by one roommate. As I carry 2 heavy books, wear my nerdy glasses and look like a professional, I encounter my roommate and begin to socialize. Although this is a very rapid video-like presentation, it means so much to me. Knowing what I will be and what is my spot in this world is something I desire to know. I wanted to travel on time just to see me in exactly three years and then come back; that would alleviate the weights off my back. The knowing of this professional and successful me would make all the difference. However, that would take away the taste and bitterness of my last years in school, since it would exploit the desire of wanting to succeed.

The Academic Leadership course will aid and conduct us; however, all the hard work will need to be pursuit by us, students. Suffering is part of it, but that will be over when the emails of college acceptances pop out in ones Gmail. So, don’t need to stress, I believe. If I were in another school, I would, in the other hand, exclaim, “Worry about one’s decision, because time is ticking”. However, this school, International School of Curitiba, prepares us, students, for college; they all want us to succeed. That’s the main reason of why courses, such as the one cited above, are added to student’s curriculum.