If there is anything every children have when growing up, I will say it is the fact that we always have this anticipation about our future. I personally, I have a whole lot of ambitious and goals that I want to achieve and become when I was growing up. Of course I can not deny the fact that some of them were influence by what I watch on television and some of them was influenced by the books I read. I remember there was a time I wanted to become a lawyer, then another time I wanted to become a doctor and many more. There was even a time after the world cup and the disappointment my country faced in the competition, I wanted to become a footballer.
Growing up, there is this particular movie series that I always love watching and that is power rangers. I so much love that movie series. I remember I was dreaming big that when I grow up, I wanted to become a ranger. But there was actually something I noticed, among all of them, there is this particular dream that didn't change and that is to become a writer. I remember writing a couple of stories back then.
There are times I will enter my room spending hours writing stories from my head, some from my experience, sometimes I will pick inspiration from the movies I watched. One of the things I noticed is whenever I am writing those stories, I always feel powerful because it is looking like I am shaping the world with my words and writing. I have this dream of become the greatest writer of all time. But well, as time goes on, the dream starts to change.
But like they always tell me, sometimes life is surprisingly and will give us the plans that we didn't even planned for. As I grew older, I begin to experience another set of realty different from that which I initially dreamt of. Before I knew it, I begin to develop this sudden passion for civil engineering. It first started from the desire to know how to build structures and big houses. At the end of the day, I begin to see my childhood dreams begin to fade away most especially the writing aspect. I later ended up in the university studying civil engineering and graduating with it.
Personally, whenever I looked back, I am grateful for the childhood dreams and memories because they also play a role in shaping me to end up in this particular dream of civil engineer I am presently. Did I make mistakes? Of course no. I believe that is how life is. There are times some goals you planned to achieve will not later get achieved and that is how life is supposed to be.
There are days though that I will really imagine what my life will have become if I have not studied civil engineering. Will I end up becoming a writer? Will my stories or novel I wrote stand out or will it just be another low standard. But I am grateful now life gave me another path. It was not what I actually wished for initially but it is something I am finding fulfillment into right now. Sometimes, what we actually dream to become, we end up becoming another and what we dream to become, we actually become it.