"With my heart wide open, you know I will, find what it means to be the girl, who changed her mind and changed her world." - Sugarland
Why is it that dentists always try to carry a conversation with you when they are messing around in your mouth. Awkward.
Anyways, I know what you are thinking.....that if I didn't eat so much candy, or sweets in general, and drink so much chocolate milk and Dr Pepper, that I probably wouldn't have been lectured. Well, you are wrong. That's not what my lecture was about.
It was about settling. "Coulda, woulda, shoulda...."
He asked me what I was doing in life, I told him I applied to PA school and proceeded to question why I changed from medical school and that's where it all started. Of course, he wants me to be a dentist because he just loves his jobs, but mouths are just gross to me.
Anyways, he just kept saying "just be sure you're not settling. Be a PA if that's what you really want to do but just be sure that in 5 or 10 years you're not gonna be saying I wish I would've done this, or I should've done that. You're young, don't get to be my age and look back on your life wishing you had done more or done things different."
He was talking mostly about my career path, but I can't help but think about life outside of the career. How many of us "settle" in life? Truly settle.....settle for a guy that you may love, but it's more of a security thing? Settle in a job that you trudge to work everyday for but can't wait for it to be over? Settle for a life that's just mediocre in your opinion? I won't lie, right now I'm settled but just because I'm waiting for that next step....I gotta get into school somewhere before I can be in a career I really like, gotta get the guy I'm head over heels for, gotta save more money to live where I really want to and travel and do all the things I really want to. I'm content. But I don't want to just be content. I'm trying to make the most of it for now.
Waiting temporarily is one thing. But how many people are settled for the foreseeable future? Not where they want to be but don't know how to get there? I hope they figure it out and work towards it. Life's too short (so cliche but true nonetheless).
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