I want to be a Vet. My whole life has been about what I can do next to become my dream and how I can get there with enough tools to be the best I can be. So far, it has been interesting to live in the process because sometimes it feels like I’m not going anywhere at all. Some days I fail and some days I thrive, but it’s not so much about the thriving but how I pick myself up from the fail and keep the courage to move forward.

In one year I see myself struggling in organic chem while trying to find a tutor for bio. In five  years I see myself starting vet school asking myself what I did to be so lucky in having my dream become that much closer to being real. In ten years I see myself working at my practice back home with my mentor, my vet, the woman who encouraged me and kept me hopeful through the failures. Career wise I see myself happy and living out my goal day to day and loving every second that goes by because I did what I wanted to do and created a reality out of my childhood dream. It will be worth all the sacrifices and frustration and I will proudly wear the pin of happiness. If you’re asking why happiness instead of success, I am saying happiness because without it I would not be successful.

Perhaps there is more though. Will I have truly become successful if I lack the company of a significant other or a family to come home to? My answer is no. Yes, I will be successful but no I won’t be fulfilled because in my future I see myself surrounded by the positive people that have stood by me in my times of hardship. The people who encouraged me to be the best I can be, and the people who stayed patient through my process of getting the life I wanted. 

Ten years in the future seems far away but in the blink of an eye one choice or decision can cancel out everything that has been in the works. Ten years will go by almost as fast as our first year of college which is scary but also exciting because we are able to see first hand at how one small encounter can change your life forever.

Coming from myself, a pessimist, I am happy to say that my outlook on life has changed immensely and instead of thinking of all that could go wrong I found myself speaking the good into existence and taking it one day at a time. I have realized that my dream future is not just going to come to me, I have to work for it but while I do that I can’t be negative. I am excited for the change and ready to work for the life I want and will create for myself.