If I was to take a look into the future I’d probably be excited to see what becomes of me. I think in one year I will be maturing and working an internship to help further my career. I think that in 2 years I will be working that same internship and narrowing down the lists of fields I would like to pursue. The year after that I hopefully will be graduating university and setting myself up for a career right out of the gate.

It would be nice to start having a salary directly after college. I know that if I did have an steady income I would immediately start making my money work for me. I would invest in stocks, create savings accounts, and work often to allow me to make a good income. This is how I would set myself up for even farther in the future.

People, family, and strangers all say that life is about money and how you control it. I don’t think that’s the case for me. I know it’s important and I would want to be financially stable, but life isn’t just about your job or some six figure income. It’s about you, you are the main character and the catalyst of your film, novel, or comic that you call your life.

You know three to five years in the future really isn’t that far, yet they will most likely be the years that define who I am as a person. Some of the most important chapters of my life.

That’s crazy to think about because I will be making life long friendships, finding my limits, deepening my personal choices, and finding out who I am and where I fit on this green and blue rock.

Most people would just think I’m going to school, but little do they know I’m actually teaching myself who I am.

Further down the line of my life I know I’ll have a beautiful family. There is no doubt in my head that my children will be the most important people in my life. Life has shown me what not to become or let my children become. Hopefully the examples life has shown me is enough to raise my children from my heart, not from rules.

This family hopefully will be the center of my puzzle I call life. I want each of my children to be their own and think for themselves. That way their pieces in my puzzle don’t look like the rest. What would a puzzle be if the pieces all looked the same.

-Christian Smith