Alright, so I haven't blogged in way too long! I want to get back into this though...but so much has happened, what to write about!?.... I'll just start with what's on my mind! duh...
"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
I can't even recall how many times I was asked that question in grade school. Teachers, parents, friends- all asking that same question over and over. I remember I had a phase in kindergarten when I wanted to be a veterinarian. I didn't even like animals but that's what my friend wanted to be so I just went with it. Then in about 6th grade I wanted to be a nurse. But that was only for that year. Other than those two grades, I always said the same thing "When I grow up I want to be...successful.".
Alright, so obviously I wasn't creative enough to make something up and write down something cool...
But now...now I'm all 'grown up' and I'm a senior in college looking at the next year wondering why I couldn't have written down something better than 'to be successful'. What does that even mean!? I'll give myself some credit though, 'being successful' is more plausible than being a dolphin trainer or an astronaut (no offense to everyone in my 2nd grade class...)
Now it is time for my great plan of 'being successful' to be put in place since my age indicates I'm grown up (even if I act like a 5 year old at times...). So that leads me to an important question: What is success?
After pondering this easy and yet very complicated question, I realized it means all different things to all different people. It could mean having a million dollar house, with a boat, a BMW and whatever else people with million dollar houses would have. That's certainly not what it means to me. To me, success is being happy. I remember teachers would ask me to expand upon my response of 'being successful'. I'd always tell them I just wanted to be happy. Yupp, still the same answer. Success to me is being happy, living in the moment, loving without holding back, trusting God and believing in yourself. Success is found in love, if you love you will be on the right track to happiness.
Now that's just my opinion. What do you want to do when you grow up? What does success mean to you?
