Apr 19, 2004 01:01
Now where were we… ah yes the sixteen year old coming up and telling you what to do. What would you do? Tell him/her to fuck off, give them a clip to the back of the head, or pay no attention to them because what the hell does a kid know about life. And here in lies the problem. This sixteen year old is you. At that age you start to make the decisions that will effect for years to come and to be honest you’re in know position to make anything more demanding then what am I going to eat for dinner.
But here you are looking into the future, starting to decide what you want to do with the rest for your life. And really if I had it all again I’d do certain things differently, that is if I was able to take my present knowledge back with me but only when it comes to employment.
Don’t get me wrong I am happy on the whole with my way of things. All the mistakes I have made, all those life defining moments I’d do all over again no matter how painful they were then and in some ways still are because they define who I am and I’m happy with myself. I just wish when it came to employment I had done things differently. That doesn’t mean listening to my guidance councillor and becoming a social worker but maybe leaving education earlier or doing Computing instead of Psychology at University. And it all starts with the decision making of a sixteen year old.