This post is named The Voice because that's the show I'm watching right now...
But also I want to talk about how I'm trying to find my voice in this world.
I've always been a very opinionated person. I either hate something or love it. Sometimes those two even interchange because I'm a very indecisive person. I'm changing my mind and my life all the time. I'm attending my third college at the moment, and I will be studying my third major this coming fall. One thing that I do admire about myself, though, is that when I find the thing I want to do in life, I, right away, figure out how I'm going to achieve this goal. When I wanted to be an actor/model, I took acting lessons and signed with a modeling agency. When I wanted to become a fashion designer, I signed up for apparel classes at Iowa State University. Now, after many, many potential career paths, I've found one (or a few) that I think I was meant to do.
This fall, I'm going to become an English major with a minor in psychology. I'll never forget the moment when I realized what I truly want to do with my life. It was on a road trip to Mall of America with Shannon. I was driving and we were talking about our futures. We talked about how all we really want to do in life is travel. So from then on, I was determined to find a career I could do from my computer and be anywhere in the world. I'm still debating on whether I want to be an online teacher or a freelance writer. I might even do both. Just as long as I'm always travelling and life is never a routine.
Whatever I really end up doing, I want to change lives. Either by teaching or by inspiring or even the occasional charity work that I might happen to stumble upon during my days abroad. I want to help make the world a better place, even if that's just encouraging future generations to be better people.
By the end of my life, I hope to say:
"I swear I lived."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k009TIxQc8
