Bravo, Blog 1: Deviant Students

 


 'Normal' Social Practice ~ Having Your Life Figured Out

Growing up as a kid I feel like we all been asked what we would want to do with out lives and by our teenage years we should have already 'figured' that out. Well that 'norm' of needing to have your life figured out by the time you finish high school and having that negative idea drilled into our heads that if we do not have it figured out, bad things would come about. That would be the 'norm' I deviate from because having your life figured out does not have an age number. I believe it is okay to not know exactly of what you want to do, even in college, we are all studying a degree that we want, but for some they may not use that degree and would find themselves in a positive place in life that they did not expect. 
An example is from my sophomore year of high school to my freshman year of college (fall semester,) I was determined to become an English major and become an author where I get to publish my own book. By the time fall semester ended, I realized that is something I did not want to do with my life because I did not enjoy it and it just did not suite me as a person or a career I wanted to pursue. I was in a place where I did not know what 'I wanted to do with my life' and thought college is not going to workout for me. Comparing myself to now, in my junior year of college studying journalism and minoring in human development is something I did not expect myself to do at all. But as I was looking for different majors involving a lot of writing, I realize I would give it a shot. Now, it is to be said that people with a degree they study for may not use it and succeed in something else, that is completely fine.
Being in our 20s or even 30s or so whether it is early, late or mid, it is okay not knowing because things happen unexpectedly and just let things flow. In other words, see how things plan out and if it is not working out then I move on. It is a slow and learning process.
In other words those who do have their life figured out and is determined with what they want to do with their life, good for them. Life should be explored and not just set to one thing.

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