Free to Fall

"They say what goes up must come down,

but don't let me fall"

There is a accepted idea in the world that hard work will get you far. However, there is also the accepted idea that what goes up must come down. How can anyone work to get up high just to fall? I have been thinking about risks taken when pursuing a future. I've noticed the one risk that is never really calculated; unhappiness. Whenever you speak to someone about their future they always say they want to do something that will make them happy. Rarely does anyone stay true to this magnificent sentiment. Most people are driven towards careers for very different reasons.

Everyone settles. Whether with a career, a lover, a life.

If you asked me what I wanted to be when i was five I would have confidently said a princess. At ten i would have said a super star like Brittany spears. And now I will shakily reply that I am in school get a degree in psychology.

I have never been more true to myself than when I was a naive ten year old.

While the world around us forces us to be more realistic in our choices for a profession our souls should rebel against this confinement of our future.

I am going to take a real risk, and hope that I don't fall.