The future scares – and it’s your adult fault
Comment|It seems stressful that at the beginning of high school, you should know your future, writes Ansa Aho, an eighth grade, in her comment.
« Where You are going to apply for high school? ” “What will you become big?” “What’s your mean?”
These issues I and many of my age are heard at school, at a family party and meeting new acquaintances. It seems stressful that a high school student needs to know exactly the right school or profession that « determines the course of the rest of life ».
What is the reason for this? Not everyone will certainly live in the same Kasilla student performer bubble as I do, but I dare say that almost all of my age are under pressure of future plans.
We today’s young people live in a world with alternatives as in a candy store.
There are endless professions. Here in Helsinki, there are a huge number of high schools and vocational schools, all of them, not to mention postgraduate education.
In addition, many adults are nothing more than their work. This example shows young people that work and status are at the heart of life. Adults believe that young people’s hobbies are just a path to a dream profession, or at least a place to develop « important working skills ».
What Then could you do? What on earth do I know it. I’m only 14 years old.
But one little tips for adults is: the next time you meet relatives, don’t ask about future plans. Focus on the present and rather ask, “What does you have?”
The author is an eighth grade student in TET.
