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Future Tense
By Darryl Beckham

 

 

What to be, what not to be? That is the question. Do you have a bright future? How much time do you actually spend predicting it? To all the kids out there: I want you to consider your life in the future.

 

Growing up it seems that your future is always a hot button issue with adults -- especially at graduations and family events. At one point or another we have all been asked about plans for our lives in the future.

 

Sure we all have dreams and ideas of what we would like for ourselves in life, but does it ever really happen? Personally, I find it hard to imagine life even continuing after my teenage years, let alone after my twenties and thirties.

 

"I have a general idea [about the future], but you can't be expected to have your life planned out at 17,” is Miranda Winters' opinion on the subject. “I want to ask adults what they plan on doing with the rest of their lives.”

 

There are so many things to consider in your plans for the future that just thinking about it can seem overwhelming. Will you go to college? What are you going to be? Where will you live?

 

When you're asked these daunting questions about the future, you really can’t be sure of anything except that you're being asked a set of fairly tough questions.

 

“Being an interior decorator always came to mind,” was the response my mother gave when I asked her about her own teenage career aspirations. My mother did not end up as an interior designer. Instead, she spent many years being involved in fitness that she's now a personal trainer.

 

So how you see your life when you're a kid probably isn't as accurate as you would like, but it can definitely help shape your future. I can’t say what exactly my own future holds – journalism perhaps -- for me but I can always dream.

 

And for all of you adults, I have one question: How close to your own adolescent fantasies of your life are you?