Monday, 14 July 2014

Incertitude

It's just me or it is just really hard to know what you exactly want?

There are lots of things that need intricate mechanism, uneasy-annoying systems. But as human, whether we hate it or love it, we have to go through those systems to be in the society.

In our society, there is an education system stated that at the very young age--mostly around high school, 16-18--we have to decide what we are going to be in the next 5, 10 years. A professor?  Teacher? Doctor? Celebrity? Detective? Police Officer? Cashier? Waitress? Nothing? You have to figure it out, soon, because the it's time and you don't have forever.

Of course, the system want us to choose what we want to be as soon as possible so we can extend our carrier as wide as possible. So we settle soon enough. But nothing is perfect, so does the system. It of course has its flaws.

We are young. We are careless. We want to be free. Doing things that we like, making mistakes, trying another things and another mistakes. We are not yet figure out who we are, now you ask us to to figure out how I'd like to settle? How am I suppose to know? I can't just go by trial-and-error on my lifetime settlement right? It has to be right, it has to be perfect.

At this time, I thought a lot, that most of young generations are confused. We want to be a good person -make our parents proud, get decent school, someday settle to a good life- but at the same time we want to do what we are doing, what we likes. Just experimenting. So when you ask what one job we want to be, when the question 'what do you want to be?' 'which school you want to get into?' it's pretty hard to answer. It feels like, if I we answered it with one job all this things we've done is just a delusion. Like it doesn't matter at all, all the things we've put or struggle on, means nothing. Because as soon as we answer this question, we hate to take a deep breath, take a step back, and run even sprint for that job. We have competitors, we can't loose our ambition and motivation, and all. It's sometimes, just too much to even think of.

Sometimes I feel like I want to answer that one simple question. But then I look at my surrounding, I look through my memories and my past. My childhood dreams and my dreams now as teenager. I don't want to just stuck at one job forever. I want to be in lots of profession, but that's surely impossible. So I have to choose. The choosing is the hardest part.  Which job you could possibly pursue and which one you couldn't. Which job would make your family proud and which one wouldn't. Which job would make you settle and which job wouldn't. But the most important thing is.. which job would make you happy the most? Even doing it everyday for the rest of your life would not be a matter at all. You have to be careful to choose.

You never know whether you choose it out of passion or just because you don't want to leave your comfort zone.

2 comments:

  1. Well, somehow life is not only about chasing your personal dreams. Life sometimes, as time gradually will change you to be wiser and more mature as you should be, wants you to teach yourself about living life with no regrets. Living life to the fullest. it may not always fullfill your dreams all at once. No, that's not God's mechanism. If it is so, then why does God create something called "patience"? God also create "choice", "chance", and "change". You always have the choices not only to find happiness, but to create it. You create chances for yourself, you open yourself for any possibilities. Because things always change. You can be sure that this is what you want right now, and it suddenly changed when you 30s or 40s. You can really hate what they asked you to be right now, but who the hell will know what it would be in the next years or decade? Dreaming is about choosing passions, but always embracing any chances to cherish every changes in life.

    And perhaps i could add one more little point: even when you think your parent's plan don't suit you, your brother's speech doesn't get into your mind, your sister's advices start to be sickening, you think God can be so unfair, --or anything make you feel like obstacles to your personal dreams-- remember those people (and God of course) are the ones who will stay EVEN when you failed to reach any of your dreams.

    Narrowing your sight of dreams will force you to stay in one place when you think you want to go anywhere, anywhere beyond your dreams could drive you. In fact, when you focus in the bright side of anything happened to you after your hard efforts and ups-downs, life seems clearer and more relieving to live...

    I've just read your writings and somehow kinda like "i feel you". i've been there, and i choose to define happiness as "things i create to put a smile in my face and others faces." :)

    Starting from your point of view, and assuming you as a free and young girl, i would like to encourage you to enjoy every paths, never underestimate hard-working and believe in miracle in life.

    Salam kenal :)

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    1. dang! You got every points of me. And somehow, your comments make me believe that everything I do, I will live it. It somehow become my motivation. Thank you so much.

      Salam kenal juga :)

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