You're no skim milk, baby...

Sam said and snogged the face off of Mercedes. Isn't love grand? What are the odds of me wanting to write a post about careers and people I admire and then Glee airing an episode about what to do after graduation? Life is strange sometimes. Anyway, as the first post of this new, renovated blog I want to write about people that I admire. People who I have great respect for. People who can only be an inspiration to others. Okay, they didn't come up with a cure for any diseases, nor did they save any children or invented a flying car, but they are people who deserve some recognition. The people I am talking about are four friends of mine who all have two things in common: They know exactly what that want to do and they know me, which, in itself, is quite extraordinary!
   These four girls, or rather women, are women that I know from different stages of my life and I feel blessed that I know them. I've know S since primary school which means that I have known her for more than ten years. I got to know J when I played in a marching band so that means that I have known her for about eight years. M is a friend from high school and I have known her for four years. And then there is T who I got to know at uni. All of these women are truly my best friends!

The inevitable question that you first time get when you're two is "what do you want to be when you grow up?" we all remember replying, loud and proud: "a pony!" and why not a pony? They get to walk on all fours, eat, run and, best of all, shit everywhere! How can that not be desirable? As we grow older, our replies change and I clearly remember my friend saying (when she was nine) that she wanted to be a sales assistant because sitting at a tilt all day long, bibbing the one thousandth can of tuna looked so cool. Then comes the teen years where we are really confused and when asked "what do you want to do when you grow up?" we'd answer, "be left the f***k alone!" It has taken me some time figuring out what I want to be when I "grow up" and I did remember a time when I didn't want to grow up at all because, and I'm quoting me age five, "I don't want to grow up because grown ups don't eat sweets." How wrong could I be!! Now I have my own money to spend on sweets!

Now that I am 20 (still hurst a bit to say), studying my dream course (marketing and media), I have almost figured out what I want to be when I grow up or, grow up more, but these four women, who I introduced earlier, have it all figured out!
   After much consideration and changing career path more than the average person, S has finally figured out what she wants to do. Admittedly, I did laugh when she told me, but after she talked me through it I was genuinely impressed. She has joined the army. And not only the "normal" army for "normal" people or whatever you want to call it, no, she joined the toughest path one could image and was actually advised not to take this route, but as my friend loves to challenge herself, she signed the contract with a smile. She'll begin training in a year and in the mean time she'll increase her gym time, stay off sweets, cakes and other things nice and just overall get her mind set on her new life. I can only salut her, take off my hat and pay my respects as that is truly badass!
   J is a very outgoing person and after our trip to McD she made it clearer to me what she wants to spend the rest of her life doing. She wants to be a musician. And no, I don't mean someone who sings songs they pretend to have written, no, I mean a real musician playing in an orchestra on her french horn. She knows it's hard and it takes a lot of work, but she also knows how to get there and she is well on her way. One can only applaud her for her determination and mindset as becoming a musician is much, much, much harder than becoming famous, no wait, I mean  "singer".
   The next person of who I admire is M. M is extremely interested in languages, but not just in learning languages. Her interest is in the root of languages and accents and she wants to study accents and phonetics. She might not know what do to with a degree like that, or rather, I don't know what she wants to do with a degree like that, but what I admire her for is that she is studying something that interests her more than anything and I really mean more than anything. She has a big fascination with accents and languages and this course could not be more right for her. What is cool is that she might not care that much where it can take her. What she cares about right now is keeping herself interested in studying and that can only be applauded!
   T is truly one of me best friends and I only got to know her a couple of months ago. She studies actuarial science and no, it has nothing to do with agriculture or science. It has a lot to do with math and to me she is a math genius, though when I tell her, she laughs stupidly while saying "no I'm not. I just really love it because it makes sense" to which I reply "math never makes sense!" She knew from a very early age that that was what she wanted to do and what she had to study to get there. With an actuarial science degree she can work in insurance and make big money (her words, not mine) How can that not be admired! Hat of and carrot cake to her!

I feel so blessed that I have such ambitious and motivated friends. Sure, I have my own ambitions and motivations, but what better to motivate you than your best mates? They make me want to work harder and truly go for what I want to do when I grow up.
As Sam from Glee would say it "You're the cream that raises to the top" (oh how I wish he now would snog my face off...)

I applaud you, ladies!

Until next time...

Addie

Hello again!

Okay, so I just realised that it has been two years since I posted my last post which is ridiculous! Life has been crazy and I'm just now trying to figure out what the hell I want to do with it and I think I might have come to some, well, opening (?) as to what to do, but more on that later.
First of all, I was a teenager when I started this blog (17 I believe) and now I'm 20 years which means that I ought to change the title of my blog, but I just can't. I like it. I might change it so it isn't "teenager", but perhaps individual? I don't know.
Second, I have to work out, for real now, what I want to do with this blog. I used to write about cloths (ish, anyway. I have realised that I might not know that much about cloths...), shoes (love them, but somehow spending my hard earned money on a sandwich just seems more sensible...), "love" (and I say "love" in quotes because I don't believe that I have ever been in love, but I have had a crush or two *wink, wink*) and just basically anything in between, but I think it's time for a real structure.
Third...I don't really have a third other than I'll see if I can write on this blog more often as I do enjoy it, but just can't be arsed sometimes, which is bad.

Anyway, that was just a "hey, I'm not dead, just lazy!" message and I hope to update more often!

Till next time!!

Addie