The Bad Thing About Being a Dreamer

Growing up, I think we all go through these faces of dreams that we all want to achieve one day especially career wise. Some kids want to be President while others want to be Firefighters. When I was growing up, I never had just one dream. That's because I'm a dreamer and I have so many passions in the world which means I could never decide what I wanted. I wanted to be a teacher for about two minutes, then I wanted to be a fashion designer and even had a notebook full of badly drawn clothing, then I wanted to be an actress and even looked up schools/camps/auditions/whatever for me to explore and discover, then I wanted to be a photographer when I got into high school. After I realized becoming a photographer probably wasn't going to happen, I decided on culinary school, cosmetology, and who knows what else. I finally landed on something: music. I began my journey into music my freshman year of college and was a Music Business major for about a semester because I wanted to be a Music Producer. The thing about being a music major is it doesn't really lead you into Music Producing; it's learning your instrument and getting to know classical music to put it shortly. So middle of my first semester, I changed my major to Mass Communications with a concentration in Film and Media hoping that would help me better to get closer to producing.

The thing about being a dreamer is when you start to grow and change and learn, your ideas change with you. I still want to produce, but I can't decide between music, radio, TV, or film. I have so many dreams. I still want to go to cosmetology school or become a pastry chef. I want to be a book editor or book reviewer. I want work with animals. I want to be a YouTuber if I could get the courage to do it. I want to work with makeup. I want to travel the world with no restraints on cash and time.The bad thing about being a dreamer is I just have too many dreams.

I don't understand why we have to be limited to one thing, one career. Why can't we explore all of our interests? Why do marketers say in order to have a successful blog, you must stick to a topic in order to get readers? See, the thing about us dreamers is we don't have one interests. We have many.

This whole idea that people are supposed to have one type of career after they graduate college is beyond silly to me. I want to follow my dreams, but my dreams are not restricted to one area. My dreams are all of the place and I'm fine with that. Why shouldn't I be fine with that? So many people have it in their heads that once you pick your career path, you have to stay only with that. I don't want that. I want to explore all of my interests. But, in order to live and live well, you can't. I think that's why I'm having a hard time with my upcoming graduation.

I think the hardest question for me to answer right now is: What are you wanting to do with your degree after college?

The answer: I don't know right now. I know I graduate soon, but the idea of me having to choose one thing is stressing me out.

Have any of you ever felt this way?