For a project in Spanish, we had to make an outline of what we would do in the next 12 years... When I started, i had NO IDEA which direction i could POSSIBLY be going in... What job would i have? What would I major in? Not like I can even really think about that yet, because I don't even know what colleges I want to apply for yet. Okay, I'm overthinking this... right? So I took a little break, and when I came back... I decided just to write our what I wanted to do. Maybe it'll happen, maybe it won't, maybe only some of it will. Who knows? I came up with a good goal to keep in mind, anyways. Finally, I decided that, in the next 12 years, I would:
-Graduate from high school
-Graduate from college (no idea which one yet) with a double-major in Musical Theatre and Philosophy
-Teach preschoolers (build up an awesome immune system!)
-Live in Italy. Learn to speak Italian the hard way. Live with relatives, find a job there, for a while, at least.
-Come back to the States, and act, sing, (mayyybe dance, if i have to) professionally,.
-Have a family. Get married, have kids, but STILL work!
After i wrote this all (in Spanish, of course), i STILL wasn't sure if this is what I really wanted to do in the next twelve years.. but I kept it anyways. I realized that I'll probably never have it all planned out, and the uncertainty is scary. But I'll learn to be okay with it. Thinking positively: Anything can happen, so maybe it will turn out perfectly =].
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MELONKA! how YOU doin'?? Anyway, I really enjoyed your comment. Obviously, it seems, because I'm commenting. What I thought was quite imteresting was that you showed that first, neurotic, reactionist, confused reaction to zamora's assignments that is normally elicited by the majority of our class whenever something is announced, yet recovered. In a way that appeared to be quite responsible, too. You figured, "forget about the doubts other people might have about all this being possible, this is what I'd like to do, and that's that. And so what if it takes hard work; it's worth doing." That's one of the things I enjoyed most about it. You said you'd "learn italian the hard way" and do all your motherly things and have kids yet "STILL have a job" (and quite alot, I might add.) I really admired that; you didn;t try to escape the reality that these goals might be harr to achieve, or nigh-impossible. It looked as though you accepted their difficulty and were perfectly under control knowing that, being all "stoic" and whatnot. IN a time and place where many of us are afraid of problems and difficulty as though we deserve something better or easier, I really appreciated that you had the power to dream, no matter how daunting the tasks, and do it the hard way at the same time. Uber-kudos. See you monday :)
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