Re: Time to Grow Up.

I was reading a blog called Living in Egypt, The writer of the blog is a Canadian Lady living in Egypt blogging about her life, opinions and experiences in the Egyptian community. I found an interesting post called Time to Grow Up, it was so... I do not know what to say about the post but the least I can say is it was disturbing, I found that the lady who is about 59 years old has just stopped worrying about what will she be when she grows up, she stopped worrying about the future and her targets and goals in life. And this is a total problem for me as I am only 24 and I can't stop thinking about the future.

I need to find my path before it is too late to take any actions, I need to claim this time where I am in full strength and bright mind and gather the most possible experiences of life that when I grow old I can make huge decisions without much effort because I won't have such effort (everybody grows old, weak and more fragile)

But the scary idea is to give life the driving wheel of your life, to be like a captain-less ship in the huge ocean of life and accept any shore life throws you on. And I do not want that fate, I want to make my own fate to carve my own steps to the place I want, but where do I want to go? 

A friend once told me that this problem is the problem of all young people who are not following their parents lead, for example: one friend graduated as an engineer but he knows and totally accepting that this graduation was only a prestige to just be an engineer because his fate will lie in his fathers shop, another one who graduated as a doctor and he is already having a job in his father's hospital. It is the problem of people who do not have a plan to inherit, who do not have a pre-paved path of life to follow

And I guess that Mrs. Maryanne agrees with me that she did not have a paved path to follow it was life and fate that got her to this point of life and I also think that she is out of strength to make any action to even think of changing anything right now. She has entered the phase where people around her will benefit from her wisdom accumulated through all those years of hard work. She is entering the stage where she is getting ready for the upcoming responsibilities. and I guess that she will soon start worrying about other people.

Now, The Question is What shall I do?, How shall I know what to do?, and How can I gain command of my own life?

I know for sure that there is nothing easy even making a paper plane (If you do not remember the time you took to make your first plane try making this one) but there must be a way to find my own path, and I am determined on finding it.