Dreams & Hopes Of My Future

For some people, talking about their future might be a thing they would rather stay away from. They say that they live by day and just think about what they are going to achieve in the following day. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I do not agree with that statement 100%. Even if it is true that we have to live by day, but our dreams and hopes is what keeps us in shape to continue our life and have hope for tomorrow.

For some of you, you have known what I wanted to be when I grow up. And for some of you as well, you have known my side-study I wanted to achieve as my age grows by day. To those who haven’t known, I’m going to tell you about it not long after this. Personally I rarely talk about my dreams to people, because the more I talk about it the more confusion I seem to have about my dreams because of the diversity of choices people made me choose from and conditions they set for me. So yeah, I kept quiet most of the time. But just for this chance, I’m going to let it go, really.

I made this actually, a timeline for the next 25 year of my life. I made this last year, and none of my major dreams have changed too far from this timeline. I still wanted to be a psychologist. I am aiming for University of Indonesia for my psychology major; but just in case it fails I have backup plans to go to Pembangunan Jaya University or UKRIDA; still holding on to the Psychologist dream. I’ll have to agree that lately psychology have been a massive interesting major in our generation and I do not deny that I’m going to have a lot of competitors later on in the realization of taking this major; but the job of a psychologist isn’t purely what I put all of my interest into. I still have other passion to move alongside of my psycho job. I wanted to be a journalist.

For those of you who have been here since junior high and have been reading my notes on facebook 3 years past must have known that I love writing. In fact, I believe some of you have also noticed that I still do my writing ritual in class in the past semester. I would most likely not take a formal study upon journalism because of the work choices of journalism didn’t appeal me much; I would rather take other majors that I specify as “more profitable”. I can possibly take it, in a percentage of 10%. In journalism, I just want to be a writer for KOMPAS newspaper to tell you the truth.

Besides psychology and journalism, I actually have a hidden passion and calling that I ever so wanted to do since I was in 3^rd grade of elementary school. Maybe you will get startled, maybe you won’t. So, here we go. I wanted to be a teacher in an untouched village in Indonesia. If you didn’t understand what I mean, let me get it clear for you. I want to be a missionary teacher here in Indonesia. I’ve always longed to ask myself if later on technology have gone faster than what our minds are capable to accept, what are these uneducated people are going to start with? Who is going to tell them what is which or which is what? I don’t know which part of Indonesia yet, probably a village which name wasn’t even there in the map we’ve seen for years. There’s no way that there were many people with a calling like me.

I love adventures in the nature as in going in and out of forests, taking risks of travelling far away from home. You can’t force me to sit back on a desk and do all those stacking papers because it’s simply not my dream. Possibly saying in other words, I am that teacher who will report back to Jakarta in form of a journal about what is it like to live among those of your own people in this land and applying the psychology theories I’ve learnt years before.

When I asked Mrs. Mihan about what are her reasons of picking this topic for us, I do believe that she did not only want us to think about our future once in our life, but to also to start believing that sometimes, your hopes can be your dreams; and your dreams, can be your hopes.

I most certainly will stick to this timeline I’ve made and this world needs every one of us to make a difference that we can – through the passion God have given inside of us. The tagline Martin Luther King Jr. brought for us years ago made me believe that everyone can have their hopes and dreams, no matter how old or how bad they have been. Because I HAVE a dream J Thank you

Trust dreams; trust your heart, and trust your story. –Neil Gaiman