We are all asked when we are kids what we want to be when we grow up. Our answers were normally princesses, astronauts and in my case, a rockstar. Our aspirations never failed us back then. We would dress up as these professions for Halloween and watch movies that featured them as the stars. Where has that passion and excitement gone?

Growing up is bitter-sweet. We become dependent on the things that never had significance to us. Money rules our lives and our schedules become less fun and more of what we need to do to be the best. We go to school or we go to work and we lose the time we once had to imagine ourselves as princesses, astronauts and rockstars. This represents the bitter side of growing up. We are less inspired and more practical. But, growing up is inevitable and can even be sweet.

We may be less inspired but we are more driven. We go after what we want instead of just merely dreaming of it. We go to school and we go to work and we gain the experience we need to fulfill our dreams. We have taken control of our dreams and we are working every day to obtain them.

We may have lost our childhood aspirations but we have gained much more. We may have nostalgia for our home towns, we may crave our mother’s home cooked meals and we may miss our childhood beds but we are working towards our legacies. Our generation has the power to change the world if we let ourselves believe it. Who doesn’t agree that this world needs a little changing?

We are learning more about the world and more about ourselves as our ages increase which is pretty exciting if you ask me. Let us focus less on our bills, our homework and our sleep schedules and a little more on the wonderful years to come! If we focus on this positivity maybe the world will follow suit.