...The Rhodent Life...

We often plan how we want our lives to turn out, the standard or normal life plan usually to finish high school, attend varsity where you meet you’re life partner (if you haven’t met them already that is) and you graduate. Then enter into the “big bad world” of responsibilities and 9am – 5pm jobs, oh the joys! This is not all gloom and doom however, because one often hopes to become an industry leader in their chosen profession and follow in the foot steps of idols such as Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump, Bill Gates and Trevor Manual (the list is endless!). Only to get married a few years down the line and live happily ever after.

It all sounds so wonderful and exciting doesn’t it? But, more often that not, how your life turns out depends on one critical point in your life. A point where you had to make a life changing decision of what subject choices to study and what it is exactly that you want to do with your life. Some follow the traditional conservative office job approach; what I'd like to call playing it "safe", they want to become Doctors, Lawyers and even Accountants. While others, are slightly more adventurous and want to become Astronauts, Fireman and even Surfers.

We all have our various reasons for pursuing our chosen professions, whether it's simply to annoy our sometimes overbearing, although they mean well, parents or fulfilling a life long dream that will ensure financial stability as well as independence. Whatever reasons we have for our individual pursuits, the one thing we all have in common is the desire to succeed and be happy. We thus all partake on a journey to better ourselves. We seek education, knowledge as well as wisdom and thus end up in varsity. Unfortunately, some don’t end up at their first choice universities but they make the most of their varsity experience at whichever university they end up.

So you make it past matric, get good grades and you begin to think to yourself “yes I’ve made it”! So what’s next? The daunting thought of where do you go from there, how will you manage, will you even be able to manage and last but certainly not least, if you’re not from a financially stable family, where will the thousands of Rands required  magically appear from. Then one begins to wonder “where did the years go and how did I get here so fast”, well at least now one begins to understand how our parents felt when we moved form being innocent little toddlers to irresponsible teenagers with ranging hormones.

At this point getting a job might be appealing and one begins to wonder what thoughts were going through their mind when they set their sights so high in the first place. Well, I say to you dream and dream big! My former English teacher, back in the days, used to say aim for the moon so that if, and not when, you fall, you’ll fall among the stars.

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Posted: May 3rd 2011 12:14