Thoughts From a Confused Teenager

I have been thinking what to do when I graduate high school. The only thing I can say about it is I want to be bilingual and live abroad. That's a personal goal, but for career choices, I'm a mess.

Working with kids or baking pastries are nice to me, but then again, I love fictional writing. I also enjoy politics and law. Being a doctor wouldn't be bad either.

I like a lot of things from different fields, but yet I can't take time to narrow it down with experiences with those things. It all needs to be decided.

Every student is constantly reminded that they can't take school day by day.

All I ever hear in the guidance office is "--for a good college application--".

No one really even looks at that place as people that can help you feel better or provide you help with family troubles, such a abuse and neglect. It's a place where they tell you about how awful or great you'll be in life. Maybe that's just my school.

I have so many stories about people trying to get help from there. Spoiler alert: they didn't get any. Just a worse situation.

Anyways, the future is something that unavoidable, but a person can create their own outcome.

Thinking that everything should be solved the day you hit high school is complete crap, I can guarantee that.
A while ago, my entire grade for a while was completely brainwashed for a few days by the stress of the future. Again a delightful gift from the guidance office.

It would have been better if they said, "Take it slow. You're future is yours and if you want to decide in a few years, it's up to you. Just give some effort to school so you'll enjoy the options later on."

In reality is was, "if you don't have a career path soon, you'll be so far behind. SATs will determine your future. Here's a test that will give you careers and you will pick something from it because you'll fail at anything not on the list."

If you can't guess, I don't like them. They don't understand what it is like to not know what the future holds, more like they choose not too. They are living their future from high school, every kid in the building isn't.

The stress of having everything be decided so quickly is stressful and scary. It's insane wanting it decided now. There are so many options to explore and a perfect one could pass by without knowing it.

So what we have learned today is how the future is something that doesn't need to be decided so soon and I have a slight problem with my school's guidance counselors.

Hopefully, I made sense.