My Right Place

My Right Place

By: Austin Baker

The right place for anyone in the world is where they feel most comfortable. It could be living alone in the wilderness, an apartment in a populated city, or it could be that dream spot on a beautiful island. As you mature and develop in your lifetime, your “right place” will change many times, just as you changed decisions on what you wanted to be when you were growing up. Every location in the world is written on a piece of paper that you must narrow down to the one that best fits you. It sounds challenging and nearly impossible, but if you find your inner self, it can be accomplished. Choosing the right place takes time, effort, patience, imagination, and a bit of courage.

            Time is a big word that holds a lot more than four letters. Time is starting and also stopping, time is a lifetime, and time is everything. As a kid, you are always eager to try new things, immediately. Your parents say, “Hold on” and you say “Hurry up”. Your parents say, “Time to go” and you say “One more.”  Everything is fast in life, but you have to turn it down one notch and ease your foot off the pedal. Being first as a kid is great, but being first as an adult is not a hopeful sign. Time is an important aspect in finding your right place. You need to learn from what you do. As simple as it seems, the most difficult problem society has is not learning from their mistakes. Therefore, you must mature in wisdom and search for the moments and aspects of life you enjoyed as a kid and which ones stuck with you as you grew up.  Time teaches patience which sounds dull and unappealing to people, but it teaches people to review what they experience and it gives feedback so they can change or stick with what they are doing. Time and patience are like money in a bank. If you spend all of your money early in life, your future will not hold any purpose and the idea of a right place will be meaningless. But if you save and put your money away for your future, you will have an idea later in life and you will have a better sense of what to do with yourself.

            Effort is key to all parts of life. You must try and put up a fight if you have any hope of being that person who will do extraordinary things in this world. Every day competition is portrayed in the business world with people being fired and others being hired. At school kids are competing for the highest class rank so that they can become the valedictorian or go to a top ranked university. Even animals in the wilderness display competition by fighting to survive. Life is not easy and we are meant to face challenges so the people who can handle difficult situations are separated from the ones who cannot. I know that if you wish to find the right place, you will have to put effort into searching for it and no matter how long it takes, you must have determination to keep seeking that perfect place. Courage is shown when you have the strength to keep going and the hard work ethic to never give up. Once you narrow down the list of right places, you will have to take a risk to go one way or the other and that takes the courage of a bull.

            Imagination is given to few but attainable by everyone. Imagination brings out the dreams of people and the things that everyone wishes and wants. Many people have an imagination but do not choose to use it once they pass the age of a teenager. Using your imagination will help you visualize the perfect place and view the things that are in it. You have to go back to being a kid and just dream about the place you have always wanted to go or the place that you loved most. It takes time and effort, but it will come.

I change my mind everyday about my right place and it is not something I believe is meant to be an overnight decision. My right place is not just where I want to live, it is much more; it is indescribable. I have the imagination of a piece of paper with every memory, picture, person, object, or thing I have ever seen written and drawn on it. I think every day of where I will attend college, where I will live when I grow up, what job I will be doing, the girl who I am going to marry and much more. I am not yet at the maturity stage where I am patient enough to slow down and relax, but I am working towards that direction. I have the courage to take risk, I have the effort to give it my all and never give up, and I have the imagination that will provide me with a glimpse of my right place. At this moment, my right place is out there, but I don’t know where it is. I have half of a map to guide me; the other half is my heart. As I mature in life and gain more wisdom, I will find my perfect place.

 

 

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