Live YOUR Life

Sometimes I don't feel like I'm in control. Sometimes I feel as though life is pushing me around, forcing me to take the road that I wanted to steer away from. Sometimes I lose my hold of the wheel and I start to crash and burn. Sometimes... But at other times, I remember that this is MY life and no one will ever be able to tell me what to do with it because ultimately it's my choice and in my control. Just because someone told me to do this or that, that will never mean that I have to. Sure I'll take it into consideration out of the countless options out there, but I will never let someone else, or something else for that matter, dictate my life and how I live because every person is given his/her own life, we should each be living it.

High school has been so confusing with so many people telling me to take this standardized test, to do this program, to apply for this internship, etc. I'm utterly grateful and blessed to have people in my life who care so much, but when they begin to expect me to follow their alleged advice so blindly, my gratitude diminishes. Don't get me wrong - I'm open to suggestions and constructive criticism, but that's what it is: an expansion of options and a process of growth. They will never become part of my "Ten Commandments". I know myself the best and only I will be able to make decisions for Frances Lee.

#independence #identity #life