What about the future?

Lately I've been feeling inspired about everything around me. I'm thinking about future and how scary and amazing it can be at the same time. I'm living that time that we should choose colleges and get into them. I’m living that time when all your family and friends ask you what career you are going to do and which university you are going to go to, but the true is that I don't really know what I want to do. And this gives me a feeling of enormous stress, because I am a person who always has all things planned and for the first time in life I am letting things go and deciding as they go. 

I think of when I was little, had all my adolescence planned, all my dreams ordered and now ten years later nothing has turned out to be what I had planned. I think the problem we have is that we plan things too much, when we are born we have the planned life until approximately 21 years in the sense of studies. I think we really forget the meaning of life, we forget to live and with this I mean for example having a weekend to do things that we like.Unless it's holiday day or summer we can’t do it because we have planned everything we have to do.

 This is simply my opinion, but I am based on a few days ago, some friends made me a surprise for my birthday in which it consisted of going to spend the day in another city, I had all that day planned, it was something different and I sit very well, it helped me to forget for a few moments of all the problems. By this I mean that future isn't just about college and jobs. It's about friendship, love, adventure, opportunities, living at the moment, no regretting things, enjoy every single second because tomorrow we may not be here anymore.

 Future is about now and youth. Enjoy now, because now is the future.

PAU’S WRITING

I think that “Buy nothing day” is a great idea, because we are living in a society where we are always buying things, and most of the things we buy aren’t important. We need to understand that we have to consume less and produce less waste. This idea is so important just because we have to teach the new generations, that we can´t spend our days spending our money on things, just because they are a new trend or something like this. We need to learn the meaning and the importance of our consumer habits.

In conclusion, we have to decide if we really need a thing or if we are only spending our money on it just because it has a discount.

WELCOMING EMAIL

Hello my name is Carla, I'm 16 years old  My main hobbies are reading and listening to music.

I have many goals; the main ones now in the short term are to pass the course with good grades, and to go to live a time away from my friends and family to be able to become independent and in a way, to leave the comfort zone.

In the long run are to travel as much as I can and to be able to work on what I really like and it makes me happy.  I have many more goals but these would be the main ones.

I have clear that I am going to find many challenges to reach all my goals, some of these challenges may be for example If I fail an exam, I will have to make an effort and study much more for the next one. And if I don’t have money to travel and live in another country I'm going to have to work hard and save a lot of money to fulfil my dreams or I will have to wait more time to make the trip. The people who can help me to achieve my challenges are my family and friends, the people who support me and help me in everything.

“You can let your failures define you, you have to let your failures teach you.”

This is my favourite sentence of Obama's speech, It's a very inspiring and motivational phrase. I think it is very important to make it clear to children that although we often fail in studies or anything, it doesn’t mean that this defines us, we have to take advantage of that failure to learn from it, and not to fail again in that way.