What I want to be...

Ever since I was a kid, or let's say for all of us when we were kids, we wanted to be something or other professionally, and it kept changing with age and situations.

For me it started with being a teacher, I must be in Grade I then. That time most of our teachers were females and I thought well that's what girls do when they grow up. Teach kids, come home, cook food, wait for their husbands and go for a walk in the evening. We were so naive and innocent. That it makes me laugh now. Then as I grew up I was exposed to various professions and I imagined myself in quite a lot of them.

Doctor, which died down with my first visit to the hospital and being injected with a Tetanus shot, I realized I was way too scared of them myself, forget injecting someone else.

Then, inspired by my mom I wanted to be a lawyer, I thought they win all the battles by talking. How amazing!

Later, I wanted to be an astronaut, inspired by Kalpana chawla, but soon I realized how much one has to study for that, and gave up. Hehe...
Then I thought what if I cannot get into space, maybe I can just fly. Well, situation was the villain here, cos the moment I dreamed of it, I got glasses. But, I did spend next few years dreaming that my boyfriend would be a pilot and we'll have that absolute romantic moment like in Pearl Harbour, when he takes his girl flying with him. Thanks to the movies for corrupting my dreams. Hehe...

The list is really long, and I can go on and on, but the point am trying to make here is that I never thought I'd end up doing engineering. I clearly remember repeating these lines to everyone in my school days, 'I'd not do what everyone does, I'll not go for medical or engineering', but ended up doing engineering and now have switched to Information design. And don't know if tomorrow I might just switch to something else. It's funny how life changes, situations change and you adapt, and move on, cos the ulterior motive and goal is something way beyond what I want to be... Something I am yet to figure out.