Today is the Future

Perhaps we don't really think about it on a daily basis - but that saying that goes on like, "you should do well now so you will do well in the future" or something along those lines anyway. It really goes without saying once you've seen it happen to you, but on those odd occasions I simple slip because you didn't see the caution sign can lead to dire consequences.

We've made our mistakes, our amends and we try to forget the things we've done. It's not as easy it seems - it really does stick with you even as we try to forget. I don't know for you, but even years after I've done something wrong I vividly remember as if it were a film that replays subconsciously. Just like anyone else if you ask me on the spot to recount something stupid I've done I'd probably say I wouldn't know. Come around the corner I could probably think of at least half a dozen incidences right now. 

The implications are never foreseen of our actions - a new perspective we should probably have in our lives I argue. A recent conversation with a friend of mine about how high school grades stick with you for the rest of your life. Yes, it might simply be that sheet of paper that you get at the end of the year. However like any other record it stays attached with your name to it. Anyway, he was recounting how a friend was seeking an administrative position at a secondary school and they asked to see her high school grades. Lone and behold, something that probably wasn't thought about to come up ever again after leaving the doors of high school it comes back. I was definitely taken by surprise that even though high school was already a long lost memory and her most recent education was her masters degree.

Therefore proving how that simple sheet we are handed during the days of high school might not be important now - but it may play the role of dictating our future. It really just goes to show how the saying is true. What we do now is the basis of our future - if the foundation were weak, the structure wouldn't be built very tall. Even though there is this emphasis of the future its not to say to throw your life wholly into academics -  nor to throw your future through the window caused by ignorant choices.