This is my future”

I was in cloud 9 when I heard my classmates’ statements. Everyone wants to be successful. I even heard some of them wanted to go abroad, hoping to find better opportunities. Others wanted to be in professional field or run a business. Some planned to have their own cars for the next 10 years. And most of all, when the right time comes, some of us wanted to find our better half and build a family of their own. 

 

Of course, I would like to share my own dream. I’ll start with the year 2017, I’ll do my best to be more mature and fierce, because I always want things to be cool and fun. I am 17 years old but I look like and act like a 12 years old little girl. That is why I need more time for myself. After a year, 2018, I just hope, my parents would let me enter in a relationship already. By that time, I’ll be 19 years old, actually, there is someone who’s waiting for me and we’re just waiting for the right time. We wanted to have the normal and legal relationship, which couples should have, not like other teenagers in this generation, what I call illegal relationship. We’re still praying for it actually. Then after that, 2019, I’ll be in the stage, standing in front of my batch mates, wearing a black toga and holding my diploma. This is for my parents and for my future. After a year, 2020, It’s payback time! I’ll work hard and have fun at the same time so I can have enough money to treat my parents. I’ll bring them in Bora bora, Paris, Korea and many more. Of course with the help of my siblings, they’ll have more money by that time because they’re older than me. After spending time with my parents, full time, in 2021-2023, I’ll be focusing on my goals and dreams which is to teach kids because I love spending time with kids. I want them to learn more and to help them with the best that I can. Second, I’ll focus on my talent, which is to play a violin. I was about to choose Music for my course but my dad told me to think about it first that’s why I met Arts. I know there is something inside me who wants to excel more in the field of arts, because I believe I can still do my passion, music, in arts. Lastly, is to focus on my main goal and that is have more projects such as museum, art or music events and many more. I told myself that I will combine these three in one museum, my artworks would be about kids, (paintings or photos) with music that I will compose and after that I’ll do my best to have more projects and clients. After that all fun experiences, in the year 2024, I just wish, my boyfriend would set a very romantic but cool and funny proposal surprise for me. Then we will be planning about our future in the year 2025, this is a serious matter, because I want to have our own house before we get married and for us to be able to use our skills in arts and woods, or whatever they call that. And in 2026, I’ll be no longer using my last name I got in my dad, because I’ll be having my future husband’s last name, and I hope that would be Bernal.

 

            Just like me, when we try hard to pursue or plans and aspire, we will meet our dreams mortal enemy: LIMITATIONS. Limitations tell us that we “cannot” and we “will not.” Each of us has limitations and they usually prevent us from believing ourselves. They pull us down until we give up standing and fighting for our dreams. Our limitations do not define who we are but they are a good measure of our heart. Are we brave enough to push our limits until we reach the boundaries of failure? Are we humble enough to accept every failure is a stepping stone for our success? I know that I am not that tall. This is my limitation but this is not who I am. I am more than my height and my faith is bigger than my limitation.

            Well, anyway as I end this, I want to leave this message to whoever would be reading this essay, “Let us make sure we are very much prepared to fulfill the plans and dreams that we carry in our hearts. After 10 years, I want each of us to be living and breathing our dreams.” Yet I want to post this challenge: let us be impatient with our dreams. Do not wait for ten years to finish before you act. Be your dream today!