{"id":443,"date":"2016-06-21T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/?p=443"},"modified":"2016-06-17T22:20:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T22:20:16","slug":"the-invisible-line-of-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/the-invisible-line-of-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invisible Line of Impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The invisible line of impossible<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was in 2nd grade, sitting in a classroom doing crafts at my church\u2019s annual vacation bible school. Trying to get the kids to converse, the leaders started asking questions to all the kids. \u201cAnd how about you Michael,\u201d a middle aged woman leader asked, \u201cWhat do you want to be when you grow up?\u201d \u201cA missionary,\u201d Michael replied absently. \u201cWell you can be a missionary now!\u201d I burst out.<\/p>\n

The adult leader smiled, \u201cOf course, but certain jobs you have to be big to do. I bet when Michael grows up he\u2019ll be a very good missionary, don\u2019t you think so?\u201d \u201cBut he doesn\u2019t have to grow up to be a missionary,\u201d I protested, \u201cMy mom always says we can evangelize with our lives every day,\u201d I turned to Michael, \u201cYou can be a missionary now.\u201d Michael seemed disinterested and kept on coloring. The adult leader smiled at me and said, \u201cYou are very eager. Remember to slow down though. You\u2019re still a little girl.\u201d She walked away to help another child as I sat there internally fuming that I wasn\u2019t able to get my point across to her.<\/p>\n

What Do You Want To Be?<\/h2>\n

The \u201cwhat do you want to be when you grow up\u201d question is one of the oldest there is. My grandfather stills asks this of himself. It\u2019s a question asked from your toddler years to your late teenage years, and the answer changes over time usually. One of the things I always hated about that question\u00a0was that it\u00a0implied that at the moment you weren\u2019t anything at all, just some kid or teenager.<\/p>\n

Our society today can be cruel, sending the impression that one person on their own can\u2019t make a difference and can\u2019t change the world. Not only is this impression wrong, but it is also demotivating. While to some extent, there is a line between what you can only do as an adult, I feel we automatically make this line thicker, adding to it goals that we assume can only be accomplished later.<\/p>\n

Live Your Dream<\/h2>\n

I challenge you to live out your dream now. Whatever career you want to achieve typically has\u00a0different paths to it. Why wait till you graduate to start truly living? Once we fully open our eyes, it is amazing how many opportunities there are that we skim past without glancing at it twice. A few of these include: internships at a science lab, volunteer work at a park, hosting a kids\u2019 story time at the library, or becoming a simple \u201crunner\u201d at an office building.<\/p>\n

While it may seem daunting at first, exploring your career before heading straight for it at college can also help you figure out what exactly you enjoy doing. It might\u00a0even save years of time and thousands of dollars\u00a0if you find out early on that you do not enjoy what you thought you would enjoy or your interests really lie somewhere else. Your line is only as thick as you choose to make it so go out there and pursue your dreams.<\/p>\n

Good Luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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