Facing the Future

The future is a huge thing, I mean it applies to literally everyone and everything, it covers a massive variety of things; the future of the world, 1 person, careers, a certain industry, advancements etc. So I guess the title 'Facing the Future' is a little vague, but what I'm defining the future as in this post is career and personal progression. One of the best things about living where I do is most times you can find somewhere at a some point in time that will be completely peaceful and gives you space to think and to breath. One of these places for me is the sea wall by Heybridge Basin (pictured on the left) the walk from my house round the sea wall and back can be between an hour and a half to 2 hours so there's plenty of time to reflect, decide, or just chill.

The other day I'd spent the day with a friend of mine and he lives fairly close to it, so at the end of the day I thought I'd go down there as I hadn't been in a while and I found myself considering the future, and what it means to me. It's always been something that's troubled and worried me, and some of my friends and lets be honest, the majority of the world, which is part of the reason I'm writing about it here. Around my age (19) and basically adolescence to early adulthood the future can be quite a curious thing. Learning new things, discovering hobbies and meeting different friends means its easy for the future to become nothing but a blank canvas, which is good, because really that's the best way of moving forward, filling the canvas with what will make you the happiest. Personally, all the career paths I've wanted to get into (Acting, Directing, Writing) have all been ones that come with their fair share of restrictions and rejections, and the idea of instability. Right now I'm focusing more on becoming a writer, and so using a couple of websites I've looked into it more in terms of how I can have it as a valid and stable career option. I think that with everyone's dream, there's always going to be that central ambitious path that leads to the desired career, and we can't just mock or give up on those ideas or desires, because they are essentially what represent us, as individuals. It's far from naive to believe we can succeed in getting to where we want as along that central path there's always smaller things that can keep you stable while you progress. No-one ever said achieving dreams is a simple and overnight thing - that's more naive, but there's nothing wrong in keeping you're dream going until you reach it. Like with writing, yeah it's true I'm not gonna write a book, get it published and have my life sorted, for one thing its unlikely that publishing would be that easy and even if it got that stage life wouldn't be financially stable at that point. So I could start off becoming a journalist (entertainment content not news) which then along with this blog which I want to continue for ages to come, will promote my name, so if it does come to me getting a book published the name might mean something to even just a small minority of previous readers. A stable job that is more likely to let you survive and keep going, relevant to your desired career, is probably an extremely essential thing, as it allows you to keep positive and optimistic and still be in a career that revolves around a part of your life you're passionate about. I know even at this age, that if you have something small that you're passionate about, you're a lot more likely to cope through trickier situations within your life, and fearing the future is ... natural but really not conducive, so why not look forward to it if you can?!