Think of the Future

I'm going to take a small break from my usual rants about the civil rights of  the LGBT community to touch on another important topic. Future Planning.

Everyone has something that they're good at. My best friend is a composer, writes music, and plays piano. My boyfriend plays bass guitar and he's an excellent cook. I have friends who are artistic, athletic, coordinated, organized, and/or courageous. Everybody can specialise in something. So how do so many people have virtually no idea what they want to do with their future.

 I, for one, can write fiction, draw and people bow to me when the see me play guitar hero. (Which isn't neccesarily a skill that I can earn a living off of, but it helps with my hand-eye coordination and has helped my abilities when I play my clarinet.)

Video of my playing, not necessarily relevant ==>


As I get older, I plan to be a novelist (or writer or author or whatever the proper nam for the profession is). My main goal is to create something that I will always be remembered for when I'm gone. For example, after J.K. Rowling is gone, do you think Harry Potter will still be as famous? And practically everybody knows about C.S. Lewis and Narnia. Those two people created two entirely new worlds for people. That's what authors do. They create an escape from the actual world into a new world that still isn't as ideal as we'd like, but it's still a lot more interesting than the monotony of our daily lives. Authors help people relieve stress and put their worries into the problems of fictional characters rather than their own.

My best friend, (who can be found at http://myndithemartiangirl.blogspot.com/) doesn't write songs just because they sound cool or because she thinks it'll sell well. She composes her songs about what matters to her and what she thinks we, as a society, should change about ourselves. She takes situations from her own life finds a melodie to describe the emotions to go with that situation. After high school she hopes to attend the California College of Music.

I know it takes some longer than others to find their true potential. Some never reach it. It all depends on how willing you are to pursue it.