Preparing for the Future

               From the very beginning we are bantered about the future. About making grown up decisions and taking care of our own kids. It is a never-ending cycle that leads us nowhere. Where do we get off with enjoyment from this cycle? We really don’t. You are told you can be a doctor, a musician, an architect, an astronaut. Those are all things that you could be and that you are told to be, so what are you actually going to choose? In a world of thousands of choices why pick just one, why go down a path somebody else already laid down for you? There is no reason for you must follow that yellow brick road to Oz when you could be taking the red path to your own destiny. The future is always changing and there is always going to be a different end destination.

               I grew up in a world where you can make your own decisions and go against what the bigger people say. Sometimes you had no choice but to listen to them but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t by your own choice. There are hundreds of people who have made world changing turns and they weren’t all for the better in our eyes but in theirs they were.

Bill Gates created computer programs in high school and became the richest man on Earth through the development of Microsoft.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a minister who wanted to remove race from government inequality acts.

Nelson Mandela allowed himself to be imprisoned to allow the white and black Africans be together.

Adolf Hitler saw a world of equality, he just saw it through the removal of those with different beliefs. He saw a united and superior front it just wasn’t obtained in the most human way.

Albert Einstein is said to be the greatest physicist of all time who was also a pacifist and fought to remove war.

Ghandi, a political and spiritual leader started as a lawyer.

Karl Marx, sought out equality through communism.

Darwin, denied religion to remain strictly scientific.

Shakespeare, said to be the greatest screen write EVER. But he may not have even been the real writer, his name may have just been slapped onto the covers.

Columbus, found a new world where Europe’s ever growing population could expand but pillaged and raped thousands of natives to gain control of the land.

               Everyone should stray from the public’s demeaning eye to find their true purpose. Everyone may have the means but only a few will have the will to do what they feel is best, to do what they feel is right.