30 Day Blog Challenge- Day 1

Hello Everyone, The Moronic Ox has made it past its first month! And to celebrate I will be taking on the challenge to write a post every day for the next 30 days. And I couldn't have picked a better month to do it than April! My B-Day month!

Anyways I will be posting a new post every day this month so y'all can expect a lot of short stories, poems, and K-Drama reviews.

I'd like to start Day 1 off with a short monologue I wrote back in high school which is when I figured out I wanted to be a writer.

“The present if a gift, so live your life to the fullest.”

That’s what I was always told when I was younger,

So why is it that now that I’m older people keep talking about the future?

Everywhere around me I hear about dreams and plans for the future.

“I wanna be a doctor.”

“I wanna be an engineer.”

“I wanna serve in the military.”

Everyone already knows what their next move is,

And I? What’s my next move?

Some people say “Life is like playing chess, always gotta stay one step ahead of the game. ”

Well, I was never any good at playing chess.

My mom told me to become a nurse

But I don’t want to be a nurse

My dad told me to become an accountant and work with numbers

I don’t want to be that either

“So what do you want to be?” They ask me

And I think to myself, what do I wanna be?

I wanna be an actress, a singer, a dancer.

No, I’ll never make it.

I wanna be an artist, an animator, a photographer.

No, I’m not artistic enough.

I know! I wanna be a writer!

To be honest I didn't even remember writing this until finding it just now, 5 years later. During my first two years of college, I felt like I was under a lot of pressure because I was still indecisive about what to major in. And I felt like people were pressuring me to pursue a career I didn't have much interest in just because they were known as a "successful career". At the end of my two years of community college when it was time to transfer and choose the path I'd be walking for the rest of my life, I applied to several universities and choose the "successful career" paths. But on the application to a school that I was almost certain I wasn't going to get accepted into, I chose the path of following my dream to be a writer. Weeks later I get the acceptance letter to that one school and I took a leap of faith, that has brought me to where I am today. Not a successful writer yet, but I know I'll get there someday. Thank you for reading and all of your support. See you next time!