what do you want to be when you grow up?

I guess everyone has been asked this over their lifetime. I mostly remember this being asked in elementary school when everyone actually had a definite answer. Mine was always an architect, even from being very young. I probably just liked saying the word originally but in reality I was super into drawing buildings and those skyline things where they fade off into the distance. That is probably how I learned the word, from telling me that is what I should be.

But now, I get this question even more often and don't have a very sure-fire answer ready. And if you say anything along the lines of putting off college a year or even, dare I say it, avoiding it for multiple years, you get shunned by all elders. In current times that is.

It kind of reminds me of the scene in Breaking Away when Cyril is talking about what to do with his life and says something like, "this is gonna be the first year no one asks us to write a report on what we did over summer." But not really since no one really gets an option nowadays: a) you are going to college no matter what/where b) we are disowning you as a kid / you are a failure no matter what. I guess I have slightly more clue than cutters about what to do with my life, ie I know I am stuck attending college.

[On a contradictory side note, my grandma wants me to pursue bike racing for at least a year so I put use to all the fancy parts she has bought me over the year]

Making these decisions should be easily transferable and adjustable, but, we are getting some serious pressure at school to pick our classes for next year before next tuesday?!? And there is actually a lot of variety next year. And of course, every teacher is like, well since you get decent grades I recommend you taking classes that will coincide with your major in college (simple as that, right??)

So in my agenda it says 'learn what you want to be when you grow up- by tuesday'