What Do I Want to Be When I Grow Up
Ever since I was small, people always ask me “What do you want to be when you grow up? ” I used crayons to illustrate my dream career. My drawing was hung in the hallways for my parents to see. I remember the typical careers of my kindergarden class- ballerinas, firefighters, singers, and astronauts. I remembered mine. My picture showed a stick figure with black hair holding a mic. Underneath the beautiful drawing, I wrote “When I grow up, I want to be a singer. To this day I can still remember my youth self wanting to sing and perform on a big stage. When I was younger, questions like this were asked very often. I answered these types of questions with silliness, never thought it was likely to come true. However, as I am getting older, I realized that now I’m suppose to answer this question with confidence and mean what I say. Teenagers are expected to know exactly what they want to be and should be able to give good reasons why. Now that I am a teenager, I still don’t exactly know what I want to be.
Doctors, lawyers, dentists, business managers are all great jobs; however, I don’t think my parents or any parents in fact, had ever sat down with their children and ask them “What do you want to be when you grow up? ” If I have to answer this question, I would say “happy”. All I want to do in my grown up life is to be happy. In my opinion, if you hate your career, it’s mostly unlikely for you to enjoy it. The fun part of being an adult is that you get to choose who you want to be and make your own decisions.
Happiness isn’t something you can buy with money. I feel like society today is all about money. The so called “good” jobs are usually the jobs that make the most money. I know money is pretty powerful, but it still has its limits. Money can’t buy us happiness nor health. In my opinion, being happy isn’t as easy to achieve as people think. Sometimes, it is even possible for happiness to spread. Being happy isn’t going to be easy in any way, sometimes people underestimate the power of happiness. Therefore, my dream for now is to be happy when I grow up.
But my ultimate goal in my life is to make everyone around me happy, I want to bring happiness in the people I love. I don’t have a specific plan to determine how I’m going to make everyone happy but all I know now is that if you are not happy yourself, no one around will be happy. Happiness is a destination for everyone. We may want to try different paths in life, but I think we all want to be happy wherever we end up. Life is rough sometimes, but if you are optimistic about it, you will concur your failure. Happiness.
