Personal Vision
Everybody somewhat
knows where they want to end up in life, and I am no different. I may have a
vision but it might take me a while to get there. However, I never really
thought about what I wanted to do twenty years from now, a time that seems so
far away when I am just a first semester senior. Sure, there are the ideas that
I have considered since I was a child, but without knowing where I am even
going to be next year, it is hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of
twenty years from now.
One thing that I am sure that I want to do is go to college and major in something like exercise science while minoring or double majoring in dance. I am quite positive that I want to be somewhat involved in dance because it has been a part of my life for so long, I honestly cannot imagine my life without it. Once a dancer always a dancer and that is why after I graduate college, I would like to go into either physical therapy or medicine. I really would like to go into either of these careers because dancing introduced me to them in one way or another by either talking about anatomy and how the human body works, specifically for dancers, or hearing about different ways dancers go about treating their injuries.
During my years of dancing, I have been injured several times and doctors do not always understand how I get the injuries or how to specifically treat them for dancers. I know it is a narrow scope of people, but having experienced it first hand, it is one that needs attention. Honestly, I have always talked about becoming a doctor because I like helping people, and that is still true, but physical therapy has really caught my attention. I have had more first-hand experience with it this year because my mom is having a lot of back trouble, and it seems like a good way that I can help people get better and understand how to help dancers better as well.
As for my personal life in twenty years, well, I am not really sure. I was never the girl to imagine myself married with several children living in a white picket-fenced house. I always thought of myself as independent and living on my own in a cute little condo. I would rather live by myself for a few years and really get my career “off the ground” so to speak, than marry in my early twenties and start having children right away. I have seen so many of my adult friends go down that path and end up getting "burned". They had so much that they could have done but they ended up dropping out of college to raise a family so they never have a chance to do anything. There is so much that I want to do and experience in life first, it would not be fair to my potential husband and children if their wife/mother was never there. It might come for me later in life, it might not, I will just have to wait and see.
One thing that I am sure that I want to do is go to college and major in something like exercise science while minoring or double majoring in dance. I am quite positive that I want to be somewhat involved in dance because it has been a part of my life for so long, I honestly cannot imagine my life without it. Once a dancer always a dancer and that is why after I graduate college, I would like to go into either physical therapy or medicine. I really would like to go into either of these careers because dancing introduced me to them in one way or another by either talking about anatomy and how the human body works, specifically for dancers, or hearing about different ways dancers go about treating their injuries.
During my years of dancing, I have been injured several times and doctors do not always understand how I get the injuries or how to specifically treat them for dancers. I know it is a narrow scope of people, but having experienced it first hand, it is one that needs attention. Honestly, I have always talked about becoming a doctor because I like helping people, and that is still true, but physical therapy has really caught my attention. I have had more first-hand experience with it this year because my mom is having a lot of back trouble, and it seems like a good way that I can help people get better and understand how to help dancers better as well.
As for my personal life in twenty years, well, I am not really sure. I was never the girl to imagine myself married with several children living in a white picket-fenced house. I always thought of myself as independent and living on my own in a cute little condo. I would rather live by myself for a few years and really get my career “off the ground” so to speak, than marry in my early twenties and start having children right away. I have seen so many of my adult friends go down that path and end up getting "burned". They had so much that they could have done but they ended up dropping out of college to raise a family so they never have a chance to do anything. There is so much that I want to do and experience in life first, it would not be fair to my potential husband and children if their wife/mother was never there. It might come for me later in life, it might not, I will just have to wait and see.
