I wonder what I will be doing in 10 years

I hear music

I see trees and animals

I want to be successful

I am positive and kind

I pretend that I am really cool

I feel unstoppable

I touch the sky

I worry about the earth

I cry about sad things

I am positive and kind

I understand nothing about school

I say love your life

I dream about dreams that I can’t remember

I try to make others happy

I hope I have a good life

I am positive and kind

This quote is very important to me because a few months ago, I had to decide whether I wanted to stay in school for year 12, or leave school and go to full time ballet school. I was at dancing one night and I was looking into the café next door and I saw this quote written on the blackboard. It meant a lot to me when I read this quote because it totally related to my life. I couldn’t give up my career as a ballet dancer, just to stay in school for one more year with my friends. I still really want to stay at school, but if I have to leave and go to full time ballet school, I will do that, because, like the quote says, I can’t give up what I want most (ballet) for what I want now (school and friends).

This quote is also very important to me. The reason I really like this quote is because it is telling me that it doesn’t matter how much or how little you have, what matters is what you choose to do with that. If you get fired from your job and have no money you could wake up and not be bothered to get out of bed. You could stay in bed and just worry about your problems later. Or you could get out of bed and go out, apply for another job and make money for yourself. This is a great example of doing the best you can with what you’ve got. If you have no job and no money, you can still go out and get a job and make more money. We are the only ones controlling our lives, what we put in, we get out.

²⁵ “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than fo, and the body more than clothes? ²⁶ Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷ Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life^[a]?

²⁸ “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labour or spin. ²⁹ Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was dressed like one of these. ³⁰ If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? ³¹ So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³ But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

I really like this Bible scripture because I feel like it really relates to me. The end of this scripture really stood out to me where it says ‘do not worry, your heavenly Father knows that you need them’. This is a very reassuring sentence. It makes me feel that, when I have nothing and I don’t know what to do, there will always be someone there to help me. This scripture doesn’t say to me that it is going to be God who will guide me, but it makes me feel that someone will be there beside me. Another part of this scripture that I can really relate to is where it says ‘do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself’. This tells me that I have no control over what is going to happen tomorrow, but I do control how I deal with it. I can choose to give up if things get too difficult for me, or I can stay strong through the difficult times. Tomorrow will come and there is nothing I can do about what happens tomorrow, be it good or bad.