When I Grow Up I Want To Be...

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A bit of a different post for you today. There's still going to be somewhat of a focus on beauty and lifestyle, but from more of a behind the scenes angle. I'm going to dive straight in at the deep end. In life we grow up as children being told that we can do whatever we want to do in our careeers, to follow our dreams, to do whatever makes us happy. I am a strong believer in this. Hence the reason why I recently withdrew from university and decided to follow a path that I love. Creativity. So why is it that when I now tell people that I want to be a make-up artist their responses can go one of two ways.  Those who are already in jobs in the creative industry are full of praise and interesting questions. And there are those people who choose to criticize, undermine and fault my choice. Isn't that very expensive to train in? You won't find a job for years.. Are you sure? Is that an actual job? But you're too clever to do that! Don't you want to get a degree first? Most of the time it is these people who have no concept of the hair and make-up industry and how huge it actually is.

And what happened to when they were saying follow your dreams, just do what makes you happy. Because now I am doing what makes me happy and not following the manufactured route through university. And some people just can't seem to get their head around that. Now I am strong enough to go on in life without taking what they say to heart, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't infuriate me how narrow minded some people can be. There are some people who believe that they need to voice their own opinion on every event and thought in life that comes their way. Well to those people I have something to say to you. You may undermine my choice in career. You may not understand it. You may never get it. But what matters most to me in life is my happiness. And your spite just makes me want to push harder and prove you wrong. I will be happy. I will be creative. I will not bow down to peer pressure.

So before you even think about undermining anyone's choices in life, take a step back and think about your words. You don't know what their back story is. Or how the past few months have treated them. Or how much courage it has taken for them to come out, go against the crowd and say what path they want to follow in life with their career, or anything else for that matter. You only see the front that they put on, and you never know how deceiving that is and you probably never will.