I think that one of the hardest questions that I have faced in my life is what I want to be when I grow up.  Just as it is hard to define me by one thing, to think of being just one thing through the rest of my life is a scary thing.

I look back at my childhood and my dreams of becoming an astronaut or fireman, and I realize that those were simpler times.  It was so much easier back then to decide what you wanted to be since there were no restrictions on the realities that you would face.

Take being a fireman for example.  To this day, that is still something that I would pursue, but at the same time I worry about my safety, and the chance that something might happen to me.  As a child you don’t think about such things, and the important part is the cool fireman uniform and the red truck – the danger associated with the work doesn’t even come to mind.

It still scares me though that I have no idea of what I want to be.  I should know that by now (being in second year and all), but I don’t.  I just don’t want to make the wrong choice and be unhappy forever.

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