Grown-up decisions

When you’re a kid, you have your dreams and aspirations. You want to be a Doctor, you want to be rich, you want to be whatever God wants you to be.

Then you have to select a subject. Commerce or Computers. Do you want to do commerce later? Science people won’t enjoy commerce. Take computers.

You like computers. You’re logical, it’s easy. You do well. Then you fulfill your own prophesy, and take the science stream, coz that’s all you’ve ever looked at your whole life. Your parents call you focused; your future, blogging self calls you narrow-minded. You now abandon your love for computers for a new optional subject – biology. Certainly the more interesting choice, and who wants to end up being a computer geek anyway?

Things are that simple in high school – or pre-university, as many of your other, non-ISC friends are calling it. All you have to do is boil your education decisions down to career stepping-stones. If you don’t like the career, don’t choose the subject.

Sadly, this is a double-edged sword. While you have appeared to drop the sad study of computers at the right moment, biology, too, ceases to be interesting. Suddenly, school isn’t practical. Math isn’t profit and loss, its forty formulas. Science isn’t how things around you work; it’s how things in a lab work.

So you burn out. You introspect, have a mid life crisis at 17, and decide that if being a doctor was about helping people and giving something back to society, you need to fill up on something, coz you’re drained – in every sense of the word.

So you go to college. Join an arts course – where you figured, you could relax. Take a breather. And you learn about the world. Not for a career… just for the sake of knowing things. A college eductation. And you grow emotionally, intellectually, spiritually and even practically enough to know theres still room to grow.

Now you miss the intellectual stimulation science provides. So you evaluate your past decisions. Identify your mistakes. Wish you could do it all over again.

And suddenly you can.

What do you do?

Pilot

Yes. you read right. that's the name of my blog. And while I am starting to reconsider the title even now, barely 30 seconds into its conception, that's the way its going to stay. You see, chocolate and batman are two of my favourite things in the material world – that’s right, I believe in another world. But more on that later. While I have other favourite things, such as chicken shawarmas and basketball, chocolate and batman were brought to my attention recently, leading to this train of thought, which started with the blog’s name, and will hopefully end with this post.

As far as my alternative worlds are concerned, I believe in a Creator. That’s right… God, Heaven, Hell, the whole package. Now, strange as it may seem, my life’s better as a result of it. Eternity - tinted glasses certainly puts an interesting perspective on life, love, and other mysteries – (yes, I like the album).

Where were we? Ah yes! The conception of this blog… well, you see, when two blogs love each other very much…

Right. I do that. You have been warned. Back to the story. What’s been happening is my sister went and got herself married. Naturally, I went with her. Sadly, I missed college (Well, I didn’t attend college... Didn’t honestly miss it that much) and they told me to come back next year. Were they right or wrong to tell me so? Who cares? Bottom line - I now have the gift of time. Which is nice, except I specifically asked for a play station.

Oh well… a blog will do.