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When you’re little your whole future is ahead of you. Decisions about schools, careers and lifestyle are years away, but people ask you anyway. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” How are you supposed to know? Many adults with homes and families of their own don’t know how to answer that question. The future has exciting things in store for you that you can’t even begin to imagine. Your best career choice might be a job that hasn’t even been invented yet or is waiting to be invented by you.
A more honest question teens should be asking themselves is “who do you want to be when you grow up?” Your self-worth and identity are not dependent on your occupation. There are joyful truck drivers and unhappy CEOs in the world. It turns out money isn’t the key to everything. Part of your personal development in your teens is to determine what type of person you want to be. If you are obsessed with consumer wants for every pop culture trend now, that may lead to an unhappy future where all the possessions in the world won’t make you content. Are you rich in friends and relationships but not the best in academics? It turns out who you know in this world will often get you much farther than what you know.
Your lifestyle choices of today can have a great impact on the person you become tomorrow.
