Where do YOU want to be in five years?

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Hello my loves, I can't believe we are nearing the end of June already! Jeez I believe next month ive been writing to you for a year, my goodness how much things have changed in a year. I don't think I've realised the changes in previous years much before to be honest, not until I started documenting my life to you have the changes become so apparent in my mind! What changes have you gone through since last July my loves? I pray they were mainly positive ones. 

I can tell you what hasn't changed much in a year and that's my taste in music! Im currently listening to the song Future by Paramore and it's got me a thinking it has! 

It's got me thinking about that age old question we get asked multiple times in our lives 'where do you see yourself in 5 years time?' We have been asking this question to each other since school but back then it was more 'what do you want to be when your older?' Throughout our lives we are forever having to evaluate who we are, where we are, who we want to be or where we want to be. Why can't we have a moment to be content in how far we have come and appreciate everything we have around us? 

Change is a fantastic thing and having ambition, passion and drive to make something of your life is an amazing thing, my goodness don't think I'm saying otherwise. I just don't understand the pressure and the rush of it all from such a young age. Why do we spend our time wanting to be grown up for us to become grown up and wish we were young? 

We see young teens and they don't look like kids, jeez some of them look more grown up than me! Society has unnecessarily aged us and created this bubble of stress for us that is pointless. You don't have to decide what you want to be when you are older at the age of ten, nothing in life is set in stone but everything in life is achievable. So if you don't get the results from your exams you needed or you don't pass a job interview that doesn't mean your dream isn't going to happen, just keep working on it but don't rush yourself because you never know what path you may fall onto on the way to that destination you are striving for, your interests could change and your goal becomes a new goal. You just never know! 

So where do I want to be in 5 years time you ask? I have no bloody idea but as long as I'm happy and stable in where I am and what I'm doing I'm pretty content with that. It's my life at the end of the day. 

Remember that, your life is yours to live, not those teachers who keep asking or your peers it's YOURS, enjoy it, be young and make memories. The memories are what is great about life.

Much love

Beth ️xxx