| | What you are meant forWell I think I'll start out with this crappy xanga site until I find out how to make my own site with a discussion forum.
I have been thinking for the past couple of weeks about life and what I want to do with my life. Thinking about coincidences, about fate, about choices, about decisions. I wonder if what we ultimately make as a career or do in life is really a matter of our personal choice. Interesting enough (or obviously enough), I feel like a great part of what we want to do in our life is affected by what our parents do for a living. Seriously.
I mean you hear of all these stories about how you have the surgeon fathers, the pediatrician mothers, and then the soon-to-be doctor sons. Or the musician fathers, the craftmaker mothers, and the wannabe artist daughters. You know what I mean. I wonder how much of what your parents do really affect what you decide to do.
Personally, I grew up in a family with trade/craft skills. My dad cooked and my mother sewed clothes for a living. Somehow I feel like a big part of why I don't want to be that lawyer or doctor as my parents hope for is because I am so ingrained into the craft-oriented mindset that I grew up learning from my own parents. I always imagined myself doing all the crafty things, like cooking, designing my own clothes, creating my own art. No matter what I try outside of this creative-skills range, I don't feel very happy doing it. I realized that my mind has been set to do something similar to what my parents has done. I'm not saying that this is a conscious choice but I have realized the relationship and it is something that I can't seem to ignore. Maybe its my genes or something.
I wonder if any of you have thought about the relationship between what your parents do and what you want to do.
I wonder if your parents have this strong of an effect on you as mine has on me. |
| | Posted 10/14/2006 12:04 PM - 1 comments
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