Blog post #1 The GIVER

I chose to respond to this sentence:

1. Would you want your future to be decided by others? Why or why not?

I would definitely say no because if my future were to be decided for me then there would be nothing exciting in life. I love to know that something really unexpected can happen at any time and I wouldn't even see it coming. People say that they are afraid of the unknown, but what is there not to know when your whole life is planned out. Life is about making choices and learning from your mistakes and without that, life is BORING!!! Sometimes, I would like to know that if I have a EXTREMELY difficult choice to make then I could let the decision to be chosen for me without me needing to think so much and worrying; however, this is no excuse to let someone plan my life for me. If decisions for my life were made by my mother or father, I wouldn't mind so much because they are responsible of me and they need to make sure I do the right things, so that would be okay. The idea of my life being planned for me would be a big negative thing. I like being able to learn more and that way I know I am capable of making choices and planning my own future.

As a twelve year old what I like to think about is in six years, I will graduate and pick my own career and I can know that I'm not under pressure to chose an education that I'm not interested in. Since I was a young girl, I have always loved children and I used to take care of children at the age of five. I used to think it was normal and when I would get older, i would think the children would be annoying; although, now as an twelve year old, I still love children and decided to become a pediatrician for my profession. My grade for Health class has always been a A+ and it was great to know that someday, this would help me if I wanted to go to medical school. After thinking over this question, "Would you want your future to be decided by others? Why or why not?" I knew that if I were to do a job that had nothing to do with what I want, then I would never look forward to my future and I wouldn't enjoy working where, if I could chose my job by myself I would be happy to work.

My future is very important and chosing by myself is how i plan to live it. Having my life planned by someone else than myself is not what I plan on doing and I wont do so anytime soon. I am very glad my life isn't planned for me by another person!!!