Dream BIG!

How often do we hear of people who actually opt for their interests rather than for "fortune"'s sake these days...I find that people nowadays are engaged in courses they only have a slight interest in - or totally do not have any interest in it at all. Why? What happened to those days when people took up jobs they actually love doing??

Blame the world! Things are becoming more and more complex that even a single degree after graduating from uni is not enough to get a good job. People only feel consoled if they earn a higher and better ranking than the rest. But when is this ever going to end? The challenge to outdo each other is neverending. A double degree used to be a "wow" thing back in the early days. Today, gaining a Masters or Honours is nothing really special though you get a plus from it.

Anyway, that's besides the point. Hearing someone doing something they actually love is becoming rare.

Reasons why fewer people are doing things they love:

1. Pressure from parents wanting them to do some other thing - parents' choice. Never happened in the old days did it?
2. To earn more money to get a better future...since doing something you love would get you 'nowhere'
3. Taking up something (according to recent demand of a particular job) in order to find a job easily after you graduate
4. Have to match up to levels of society and others' expectations - if doing the thing you love is considered low-class
5. Too many people are doing the thing you love that if you happen to take it up, you'll just get nowhere (unless you're extraordinary & someone spots you or you're able to beat the rest)
6. You don't see yrself doing the thing you love in the future cos it all seems too "impossible"

And one of those people is me. 2, 3, 5 & 6. Those are my reasons.

From the very beginning, the period where every kid actually has their dreams of what they want to become when you ask them the innocent question..some would say they want to be a pilot, doctor, actor, magician..& the list goes on. When a kid tells you what he/she wants to become in the future, there is true passion in whatever they want. Although their innocent minds are not really prepared for what is expected to be what they want to be, they do know what they love. And that is the ultimate thing.

What is the thing I love doing???

If you had asked me what I had wanted to be in those early days, I would have answered " A musician/singer". I'd always dream about having my own band and rocking the stage just like those singers-cum-musicians you watch in movies like 'Freaky Friday' where they sing their songs and do their thing on electric guitars...

Later, during the early stages in high school, I discovered the art of composing songs. Suddenly, I had myself wondering if it was actually possible to end up a composer.

Then, at the later days of high school when blogging came into the picture, I had an interest in writing and considered taking up mass communication and doing something like journalism.

At the end of high school days and going into college, cameras suddenly seemed like a must to have - we needed to capture lots of memories. That's when the skill of camwhoring came into place. That's also when I wished I could become a model and just pose for pictures all day long.

Guess what? Up till today, I still have those interests. They never changed. I still wish i could end up a musician-singer-composer and prolly be a part time journalist and a part time model. But that just sounds too hectic, so maybe either one of those 3 things would do.

But ha-ha. What am I doing now? I'm studying Bachelor of Commerce, major in Accounting. An accountant??? hell, I never thought about that before!

I guess that's just life. And it is somehow consoling to know that I'm not the only one trapped in this....'thing'. Some others I know either do not know what they want, or they tell me they just HAVE to do it. Like there isnt a choice. But in today's world, I guess there really isnt a choice but to do something that you'd be able to reap benefits from in the future rather than to be doomed doing something you love.

Sooo...the people who actually get to do something they love without having any difficulties..those who're into dentistry, pharmacy, medicine, psychology and all the not-so-impossible, be thankful you're interested in such areas where making it happen would not seem too impossible.