Never Ending Disappointment

1070 Words5 Pages
“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.” (Patrick Rothus, The Name of the Wind) There comes a point, in the majority of our lives, where we realize that we need to start not only thinking for ourselves, but acting on and making decisions based on those thoughts, by doing so, this is most commonly categorized as growing up. My interpretation of Rothus’s above mentioned quote, based on my own personal experiences, is that he is simply describing the process in which we as children, develop and mature to become adults. The summer after I had turned sixteen, it was made known to me that I had to have a job, and start taking on much larger responsibilities. The application process was long and tedious, the interviews were nerve racking, and the first day on the job was intimidating, but the worst part to me was the mountains upon mountains for never ending bills that were absolutely overwhelming, and as an adolescent teen, who was use to being handed everything at the flick of a dime, all of this was certainly new to me. When I first started looking for a job, I didn’t take it as seriously as I wish I had. I would pick up an application every now and again, and then leave it on a desk for weeks at a time, only to be buried underneath other applications also waiting to be filled out and returned. As a sixteen year old girl, the anticipation of getting a car began to build, and realizing that my parents weren’t going to buy me a car certainly encouraged me to get a job. One day I finally decided to tackle the heaping pile of applications on the desk, as well as a few online. I spent hours filling out applications, and answering all the questions on these ridiculously lengthy What Would You Do questionnaires that listed
Open Document