It's almost the end of 2011, you know what it means? It's almost the end of the world! Or so the Mayans said, and the director of 2012, as well as the homeless man I saw on the street yesterday. 2012 is a big deal for most of the people on this planet, including me.
I feel a lot of pressure for the coming year, not because of the earth's demise but because everyone's expecting me to do something big, life-changing. And I don't even know where to begin.
When I started high school, I had the best laid out plans: I will finish high school with good grades so that I can get in to a good university, and get a degree in broadcast journalism. After graduating college, I will be interning at the biggest network in the country, and eventually they will be awed by my awesomeness and they will offer me a job and I will climb my way up to becoming a topnotch reporter in the network and the country. (re-reading my previous sentence awed by my awesomeness, no wonder I'm not a journalist) And I will become one of the country's correspondent for CNN, and they will be blown away by my talent and I will be on the level of Christiane Amanpour. I'll have my own show on CNN, a hard-hitting commentary or a lifestyle show on the Travel Channel.
Reality: I graduated high school with good grades, got in to a good university, took up Business Economics, shifted to IT, and now I'm perennially on a night shift working as a dialer administrator for a call center. I am nowhere near my plan, and the closest thing I can get to journalism is writing on this blog, and twitter.
I can't remember why my plans changed but this is my life now and I need to live with it. But seriously, I can't see myself doing this for the rest of my life. I always tell myself that all these are just temporary, and I've been telling myself this for the past half decade but look at me, still here hanging on to this so-called temporary life that's slowly morphing into a permanent one.
Most of my friends from high school and college are either married or rushing to get married, but I really haven't given that a thought. It's not on my 5-year plan, if I ever had any. All I really want right now is to be on top, career-wise. The problem is, I don't even know what I want to do for the rest of my life. But if doing nothing is a career plan, I am definitely on top. Procrastination at its finest.
I don't have a concrete gameplan for the coming year, but I want 2012 to be the best year yet. Just like every year in my life, I will take it one day at a time, and I guess I'll just have to wing it!
