Just got done with high school, when does life start getting complicated?

ElementDiamante
Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:59:02 +0000

Hey, my high school graduation was last night, and as soon as i got my diploma in my hand my mom told me that she’s done paying my weight (except for college and car insurance). I live in Florida and I plan on going to my local cc then transferring to ucf,usf or fau to study advertising/mass communications (I’ve taken high school courses and liked it). I have also been working a legitimate job (at Winn-dixie) since the very first day of high-school. i never had plans on going to college until I started working that terrible job (which im still employed), it has open my eyes a little about the importance of education. My grades in high school weren’t great, my gpa is like a 2.8, I’ve been through some things through out hs, I dropped 70 pounds from freshmen to senior year, I had depression (my best friend was shot and killed like right in front of me -_-). My mother has a masters and is a teacher and my father is in prison, my step has a doctorates and is a professor at our local community college. I come from a very pro black, conservative, christian family, yet I am the complete opposite( long dreads and lots of tattoos and piercings). My plans after college are to join the peace corps and then do non profit work as a career, I don’t really care about making a bunch of money (like at all really), enough to just be able have a decent apartment, pay bills and have a little left over for myself. My mother dosent really like the path i plan on taking, she wants me to be a engineer (or some s&^% like that), she tells me that I will have a complicated life if I don’t “act normal”. In all honesty I just want to be myself and make a livable income. However, being so young I don’t really understand whats to come in life so I don’t really know if just “being myself” is even an option when it comes to being a responsible adult? (