The "Future" Issue - 99 Volume 2, Issue 4

Maren
Maren Carbaugh is a freshman here at Juan Diego.
She is involved in Drill and Dance Company, and just
like us all, she once was a kid with dreams and aspirations.
Carbaugh grew up in Sandy, Utah and has
danced most of her life.
“When I was younger, I thought that things were
going to be just like the way movies portrayed high
school to be,” Carbaugh said. “I thought that everything
in life was going to come easy to me, just like
my favorite movie characters,” Carbaugh finished.
She envisioned her future to be just like our favorite
coming of age films. At some point, everyone saw this
kind of future for themselves, or at least something
similar. The movies we saw growing up showed large
musical numbers and your favorite characters being
crowned prom king or queen. There is one problem
with that dream when all wished for, which is that
normal life isn’t as glamorous as we dreamed.
“Looking at how old I am, things are definitely a lot
different than what I thought,” Carbaugh said. “I was
unaware of how hard you have to work to be successful,”
Carbaugh finished. As people grow up, they begin
to realize that life isn’t as easy as others make it seem.
Everyone needs to realize that working hard will get
you to the places you want to be.
Life
Expectation
.vs.
reality
As kids, we always had expectations of what we wanted to be doing when
we grew up, but what is the reality of how we actually turned out?
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By: Annie Harris