My Personal Vision


Imagining my life twenty years from now is daunting to say the least, I can barely keep from hyperventilating when I try to imagine myself as a thirty six year old. If I am still alive in the next twenty years, factoring in the chance of freak accidents and the fact that I am ridiculously accident prone, I want to be able to honestly say that I accomplished everything I wanted to up to that point. I want to accomplish my dreams, enjoy my life, and not be one of the millions of Americans who can’t stand their jobs and are unsatisfied with their life. That being said, I don’t have a clue to what I want to do as a career because at times I can be obstinately indecisive. I have wanted to be everything from a doctor to a journalist to an animal rights activist. One could argue that I am lost and I suppose I sort of am, I mean what other sixteen year old isn’t, but I can formulate a vision for my future that may turn out something like this:

Firstly, I will graduate from high school this June, a year early as I planned to since six grade, so there goes one dream fulfilled. Then I will hopefully get into the college of my choice (fingers crossed), after I finally decide on the colleges I will be applying to. Hypothetically speaking of course, when I am accepted at a college of my choice I will major in biology and maybe double major or at least minor in English. I have always liked science, at least biological science and enjoy literature and writing so those majors would be a good fit for me. During college, I want to study abroad in Europe for one year so I can travel around the world a bit, I don’t want my entire life to solely revolve around school because I’m probably going to have a lot of it. College can become really redundant so I want to explore the world and experience new and exciting things which life has to offer. From my major in biology I would go on to pursue my career as a veterinarian.

Once I graduate from college I will travel along the long  road to veterinary school. After I hopefully do extremely well in college so I can at least get into veterinary school (which is statistically harder to get in to then medical school); I will spend four years at veterinary school and then partake in a one year internship or residency. Although a residency or internship in not generally required I want to do it in order to garner some much useful and needed experience. Then after the nine years composed of schooling, internship and residency, yes nine, I will be twenty six and take the National Veterinary Medical Board exams to become a  D.V.M   and become board certified.

After working at a veterinary practice or hospital for a few years, so I can focus on paying off all of my momentous mounds of college debt, I want to open up my own practice when I am about twenty nine. The firm will be a contemplation of other doctors. That way I will be my own boss, make my own hours, and take vacations whenever I want.     

My dreams and goals are highly ambitious, but I know that I can do it because I am not afraid of a challenge. The next twenty years seemed frightening at first, but logically planning out my future makes my dreams seem far more achievable. No matter what happens, I hope that I'm happy and satisfied with my life. I want to be able to say that I have lived and that I have no regrets. The truth is that there are an infinite amount of ways that my future could unfold, but what ever path I take I know that it will be an extraordinary journey.