Life's Ambitions
Recently, I've encountered many barriers that are causing me to think that I can't live out my dreams. One of the highest barriers being that I have a genetic disorder
which has been labelled with an average life expectancy of 37 years of age.
It's daunting to think that my mother will be turning 39 this year and she's still so full of life and ready to go on new adventures, whereas I'll be blessed if I can still walk at the age of 30 without a wheelchair.
At the moment, I'm 16 years old (just turned 16 four months ago), and I already feel as if I know what career I want in life, and which university I want to go to...
I've always had huge dreams.
I want to grow up and be an architect, then maybe set up my own business. I want to then use my skills to work with a charity, maybe my own, and raise money to build beautiful houses (which will last a lifetime) for homeless people, so that they won't have to pay a dime.
I remember being younger and wanting to learn everything there is to learn - just so that I could help other people understand what I had already understood. But I'm starting to realise that there's no use in knowing everything; it's the journey of learning that's so exciting - not the knowing.
Despite all the setbacks, I will never give up - I will fight till the end. I'm currently doing many things to keep my mind busy and to gain new experience: I've started working part time at my school library - it's so sweet how my supervisor doesn't want me working a second more than I should because she's worried about the pay, whereas I don't mind working an extra hour for free; my team got chosen to take part in an Engineering Education Scheme, which will be launched next week; I'm doing an extra A Level in Critical thinking - sadly it doesn't count as an official A Level, but it does help immensily with the interview stages before going into uni; etc...
Thank you for reading today's post :)
Make sure you fight for what you want, because you are more than capable of achieving it!
