When you’re a kid, enjoying your childhood, excited to grow and be an adult. We enter preschool learning by the age of 2-3 years old, as we grow, we age more, entering our teenage years, being able to do more stuff on our own. In middle school, we make friends, we start to learn a bunch more, pass grades, and learn everything. Once entering high school is when you’re told “what do you want to do when you grow up”, “What do you plan to do after high school, some people tend to think or logically you’ll have your whole future planned ahead of you after high school and sometimes you have literal no clue of what to do.
Growing up, I had an Idea of being a cop. I watch shows, movies, series, etc. It motivated me the more I watched and became interested, then when I hit my teenage years. When I started questioning myself, I asked myself, ” Do I know I want to be a police officer? When I entered high school, my future or the big question wasn’t decided until my sophomore year. It was mentioned in my freshman year, but mainly focused on grades and what we were learning.
In my second year of high school, my counselor had asked me what my plans were for my future after high school. I was blank, I had no idea, I didn’t see anything after high school. The same year of high school I had a class “Criminal Behavior” it got me back into being a police officer during that time a police officer did a presentation and explained everything that needed to prepare you or have an idea and understanding of what’s like to be in the police department it motivated me again, thinking maybe this is what I want to do.
Time passed, and I had new ideas about my goal. I remember being with my counselor, and we talked about my grades and classes for the upcoming year. She asked me once again what my plans were. For the longest time, I’ve always said four years of college right after high school, but what exactly will I study in college if I have no clue what I want to do with my life?
I’m in a weight training class in my junior year of high school. We had a Marine officer presentation. He showed us the pros and cons. It interested me in a way, a chemistry in my brain unlocking the whole being an officer again, and even more than when I’d seen what was needed for the military.
Months passed after that presentation, and then another one happened, and I told myself, ‘Maybe this is what I want to do.’ In the present day, I know exactly what I want to do for my future. I want to join the Marines or a branch of the military. Soon or later, you’ll know what to do; it’ll take time; it’s never too late or too soon.
