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What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

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"When I Grow Up, I Want To Be..."
Andrew Linder

You know how kids always tell you what they want to be when they grow up? My older sister often said she wanted to be a veterinarian when she grew up. In high school she changed her plans to be in the field of linguistics. My younger sister has seemed to always have known what she's wanted to do and is focused on getting to that dream.

My younger sister is kind of my inspiration to keep going for my goal. She's so strong and independent. And stubborn. But those things are probably part of why she is so focused on her goal and is setting up everything so that she'll graduate high school with what she needs to go further into her field.

I didn't really focus on my future that much, or thought about what I wanted to be. I was more interested in reading a book and having my head stuck in the clouds. I mean, when I was younger one of my goals was to join the military, seeing as how a lot of the people in my family were in the military and they're people I looked up to. Then I got injured and that definitely wasn't a possibility for me anymore. So it wasn't until I was a junior in high school that I realized I needed to start really thinking about what I wanted to do. Looking back on that, though, it's made me realize how often other kids did say what they wanted to be and talked about it.

Think about it, how often did you hear kids say they wanted to be a rockstar, or perhaps a princess when they grew up?

How many times did you hear that they wanted to be a police officer or join the military? I know I heard those few a lot.

That's probably part of why Halloween is so greatly loved. People are able to dress up as people or things that maybe they once wished or still dream of being or becoming.

But what are most of the kids doing today? I see so many kids on phones, tablets or some other gaming device. It makes me wonder what they have in mind, what they dream of doing. My brother, the youngest of the family, doesn't even really know what he wants to do either. He is one of the kids that I worry about because he loves to sit in front of the television or play his Nintendo DS. But he doesn't even think about what he wants to do. I think this is a big problem with the coming generations because they aren't thinking or imagining all that much.

But I guess at the same time it's hard to think about. Growing up is tough and sometimes it's easier not to think about it, especially if you like the home you grow up in. It's also just hard to see yourself doing something when you're not sure where to even begin. So how did we even choose what we wanted to be? Was it just an in-the-moment decision? Or were we actually constantly thinking of what we wanted to be and how we were going to get there?

Anyways, now I know what I want to be when I grow up. I want to work with kids, get them to be creative and imaginative, bring out their artistic styles. I want to be an art teacher when I grow up.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

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