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Part 1: Quote response.
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
The future is a tricky thing. Personally, I prefer to live in the here and now, not 20 years from now. What’s the use in getting involved in your future if you can’t enjoy the present?
I’m not completely caught up in the present, though. I recycle, because I am concerned about conserving resources for the next generation. I don’t litter, because I don’t want the next generation to live in a world filled with trash. I have goals, too, because I don’t want to spend the rest of my life working at Regal in Stonecrest.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that I’d like to live my life as best I can in the present, but I also want to be prepared for the future when it comes. For example, my grades aren’t the best, and I probably won’t get into Harvard or Yale. I am ok with that, though, because I’d rather not spend my high school life with my nose in a text book and my social life in entropy. The way I see it, I’m going to go to college no matter what. It may not be the greatest college ever, but it will not be a bad college; my grades aren’t that bad, and I participate in plenty of extracurricular activities.
I have goals, too. I don’t have a lot of goals, but I have a few. My first goal is to be happy, starting now. I refuse to live my life according to how the International Baccalaureate program thinks I should, because that is pure education. I know that education is good, but high school is about two things: learning how to learn, and finding out what interests you. I feel that being successful in life is about more than education, it’s about experience as well. Therefore, I try to experience as much as I can, while also maintaining a decent education. That way, I can be happy, because studying definitely makes me unhappy.
Another goal I have is to own my own business. At this point in my life, I am working for Regal Theaters. After a few months of being there, I realize two things: that I don’t want to do this after college, and that I want to own a company ruled with my own rules and set to my own standards. I don’t like unreasonable people and unreasonable things, so my goal is to own a company with reasonable management, me, and reasonable rules.
I think that lifestyle would make me happy, if that is the lifestyle I end up pursuing. Sure, it would be hard at first, but every job is hard at first. I would feel a sense of accomplishment of doing something, and doing it my way. I would also be happy because it would be my store, so I would work under my own conditions, work as hard as I feel is necessary, and be able to make my own decisions.
Right now, at 10:50 pm, I am on the computer. An hour earlier I was watching a movie. 20 years from now, who knows? I don’t know what will end up happening, or where I will be. At this point I do know what I want, though, and that is to be a small business owner.
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
The future is a tricky thing. Personally, I prefer to live in the here and now, not 20 years from now. What’s the use in getting involved in your future if you can’t enjoy the present?
I’m not completely caught up in the present, though. I recycle, because I am concerned about conserving resources for the next generation. I don’t litter, because I don’t want the next generation to live in a world filled with trash. I have goals, too, because I don’t want to spend the rest of my life working at Regal in Stonecrest.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that I’d like to live my life as best I can in the present, but I also want to be prepared for the future when it comes. For example, my grades aren’t the best, and I probably won’t get into Harvard or Yale. I am ok with that, though, because I’d rather not spend my high school life with my nose in a text book and my social life in entropy. The way I see it, I’m going to go to college no matter what. It may not be the greatest college ever, but it will not be a bad college; my grades aren’t that bad, and I participate in plenty of extracurricular activities.
I have goals, too. I don’t have a lot of goals, but I have a few. My first goal is to be happy, starting now. I refuse to live my life according to how the International Baccalaureate program thinks I should, because that is pure education. I know that education is good, but high school is about two things: learning how to learn, and finding out what interests you. I feel that being successful in life is about more than education, it’s about experience as well. Therefore, I try to experience as much as I can, while also maintaining a decent education. That way, I can be happy, because studying definitely makes me unhappy.
Another goal I have is to own my own business. At this point in my life, I am working for Regal Theaters. After a few months of being there, I realize two things: that I don’t want to do this after college, and that I want to own a company ruled with my own rules and set to my own standards. I don’t like unreasonable people and unreasonable things, so my goal is to own a company with reasonable management, me, and reasonable rules.
I think that lifestyle would make me happy, if that is the lifestyle I end up pursuing. Sure, it would be hard at first, but every job is hard at first. I would feel a sense of accomplishment of doing something, and doing it my way. I would also be happy because it would be my store, so I would work under my own conditions, work as hard as I feel is necessary, and be able to make my own decisions.
Right now, at 10:50 pm, I am on the computer. An hour earlier I was watching a movie. 20 years from now, who knows? I don’t know what will end up happening, or where I will be. At this point I do know what I want, though, and that is to be a small business owner.