Belated happy new year to everyone who watches me and advanced happy 17th birthday to whose birthday is tomorrow.

I'm not sure if anyone is aware, minus those who have known me years, but for the past three or so years I've had the same dream future of being a Japanese teacher or translator. I want to go to University after I complete year 12 and be the first person to both attend and graduate.

But I haven't really given much thought to it like I used to. I had huge plans for it all and now I'm back to square one: not knowing what I really want.
Yesterday, my boyfriend and I were walking and we were discussing him being a history teacher or lawyer and we spoke about University then out of the blue, I suddenly blurted that I wanted to be an author.
I don't know where that came from but after saying it aloud, I thought it over and I've realized that I do indeed want to be a writer after all.

I remember spending a lot of my childhood writing silly little stories with my best friend and we enjoyed it immensely. So after finding this old side of me, I thought I might reconsider my choice of future but I still needed that one little kick in the backside to really decide on it.

Here was my final kick: [link]

One of the people I'm subscribed to on youtube posted this video recently and after watching it, I rediscovered my passion for writing and immediately went in search for my TAFE and Uni guides to search courses. I want to try and be an author, writing creatively is a past passion of mine that has never died, so I want to trust in it more than I used to and do my best to follow this new dream. It may be harder or it may be easier but it is something I want to do for myself.

I would suggest watching the linked video, if not for the encouragement message then for the beautiful painting she is doing.