((This is not mine btw))

Fourteen years, in human life, is not a long time. And in student life, age 14 is not a special milestone. This year, I am fourteen years old, all I know about my future is my end-of-year transfer exam score, which high school I can get into, or even further, thinking about studying abroad.

This ninth grade year, like any other school year, I go to school five days a week, stay home on weekends, and review for exams when it's close to the exam. The only difference is that next year, I will go to high school, the final level of student years. It seemed like I now had a solid plan for the future, what I wanted, a path that was almost laid out before me, but that path became disoriented when I finished it. learning. If you ask me when I become an adult, that is when we graduate from school, what I want to do, I don't know.

The world is revolving around me, the life I live now, learning is more important than ever. In the era that I live in, the ideology of "where parents put their children is where they sit" no longer exists. The friends I hang out with, if you ask them about their future plans, each answer you get will be completely different. Each young person now knows what they want. I am the same, I will not follow the path that someone has laid out for me, I will not lose the opportunity to do what I love because of other people's wishes.

But said that, I still don't know what I really like, what fields I'm talented in, what I want in my future life, when the time comes for me to walk on my own two feet. Until today, my life has gone on as normal as any other day, but what I know about tomorrow is very vague. Adults often talk about taking control of your own life, but what is the meaning of that statement? Is it to wake up on time every morning, voluntarily do homework, make your own decisions or do something big? Did my years in school help me find things that help me have a happy life? I don't know, and from now on I probably won't look for the answer to that question anymore. What my future will be like is not as important as who I am now.

Fourteen years old, as I said, is not a long time, which means I will have a lot of time left. Being in control of your life simply means you have the courage to do the things you like. Let yourself wake up each morning filled with excitement about the day, and end each day with a new lesson of your own.

Each person's life must be created by that person. Later when we grow old, every time we remember our past, rediscover the emotions of those days, the memories containing both smiles and tears, the time we call youth, we know we have lived a meaningful life.

Credit: L.Q.K (A random dude in the book I just saw)