Comments on: discover your passion and find a purpose

By: Erica

Erica — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:13:46 +0000

Hi, i just happened across your site and when i found this blog on this particular topic. I believe its never to late to follow your dreams or become the person you are meant to be. I myself am going through this having decided that at 40 years of age when my kids are just leaving home that fashion design is what I want to do with my life, I live, breathe and adore creating and designing and fashion and have made the decision to follow my dream and become the real me. I am about to give up a high paying office management job to leap into the unknow. I cant wait, I know its going to be hard but to wake up each morning and know that im going to be doing what i love to do is worth it, you only have one life so take the bull by the horns and just do it.

Everyone else out there who has been lost or still lost there is a way out of this maze eventually, you just have to believe in your dreams.

By: Lea a.

Lea a. — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:53:38 +0000

Oh btw, i like your military look designs and your teachers probably dont like them because they couldn’t come up with something like that themselves. Its good that your designs are different or it wouldn’t be fashion.If designs are all the same their boring and their copying someone else. Besides isn’t fashion based on the idea of creating something new and bringing it to the table? I was taught that there’s no right or wrong way to do art. Fashion is a form of art. I wish you luck.

Your confuzeled amiga lea!

By: Lea a.

Lea a. — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:44:16 +0000

Dear gilda. I want to laugh when i read all these peoples comments because there so true. Im a sophmore in highschool and allready my mom is starting to put alot of pressure on me about what im going to do when im out of highschool. I thought i wanted to be a vet too when i was younger, and the same as one of the comments on this website i realized i couldn’t because of the blood n stuff. So now my mom thinks i should do something in biology like work at a national park or something. Although it seems like a lot of fun because i would get to travel alot and stuff it origanally wasn’t my dream. Im starting to like it more and more because i have always had a love for nature but theres other things that i like more. I love art (drawing and painting,) i love writing (although i can never seem to finish any of my stories),traveling,singing and i like fashion. I have never really dreamed about things like jobs except for the vet one. I have always been a dreamer of love. I feel like i should have been a princess who gets swept away by her prince in another era. Sometimes i think i might want to open my own art store and sell my things for a living one day. I know i would love it but i probably wouldn’t make enough money to travel and another one of my crazy dreams is to travel the world. Or to be famous i think being a famous singer or actor would be amazing and i have had countless dreams of being on stage or going on american idol. I know im not a bad singer, people say this all the time but im not tone deaf or off tune. Except im a little bit stage fright. I dont think my mom cares for any of these things. She says ill never make any money doing something with art or fashion because you have to become famous to do that. She doesn’t hate my writing but she frowns on it like its a useless hobby that i could do part time to bring in money. Obviously you cant travel the world without money unless i marry someone rich, which i would have to love him. But what about the singing or acting? Well she frowns on it too. Because i would have to be famous and we dont have the time to go to casting calls or try out for any singing auditions. I know im going to college. I really want to go to fidm, which is a fashion college. I have three main choices, do something with science like biology, go to fidm or follow one of my crazy dreams, like singing, acting, traveling, or art. When i really narrow it down its between fidm and biology. My mom says if i went to fidm i would have to pay for it myself because she wont pay 4 me to go to fashion college if i did go what would be my chances of being suggcesssful? Even though being a park ranger or a wildlife biologist would be fun, i cant see myself doing it for the rest of my life and i strangely feel like shes forcing it on me because thats my only real “smart” area. I might be ok with doing it if i knew i wouldn’t regret it later for one of my other passions.But if i did fashion and never went anywhere my mom would say i told you so and it could be too late for the biology one. She says i could take a fashion and art class while in college but im horribly confused. Sometimes i can’t even sleep at night thinking about it. I will remind you that im still a sophmore in highschool so i have some time to decide but i feel if i don’t make my descision soon i never will. And i ll be stuck doig something lousy so i can support myself. It sounds crazy dont it. Well maybe im just overthinking it.

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By: y

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:04:27 +0000

Hey again Gilda

Don’t know where you’ve disappeared to but I just dropped by to read this post again as I was feeling a bit down about my life!!

Thanks again for writing it!

By: Shaina

Shaina — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:33:58 +0000

Hi, my names Shaina. I just happened to come across your blog from another blog called “Doo Deere blogazine.” Your blog was mentioned as one of the rising personality blogs amongst a few others, so I wanted to check it out, and am so glad I did! After skimming through your blog I came across this post, which was really ironic, because I just had a
conversation with my mom on the way home earlier, about that topic. I don’t want to get into too much details, so I’ll try keeping this really short, but basically I’m 19 and am having that time in my life where I feel hopeless and am constantly depressed. I feel as if my life is over and am only 19! I think a lot of it comes from me realizing that life isn’t easy and nothing is handed to you on a silver platter unless your extremely lucky (lol!). The ideas I had, the goals I had, are a lot much harder to achieve than I thought. I can’t find a job and I’ve been trying to get into community college but keep registering late. Also my dad he’s very miserable. When I say miserable, I mean “miserable” to the point where he drinks until he’s drunk, likes to argue a lot and has physically gotten violent and I know this is because his “American Dream” didn’t come true so instead of being content with what he has now he’s taking his anger and misery around others…I just feel my spirit is literally destroyed whenever I’m around him. He’s also crushed my dreams of becoming a fashion designer saying its not realistic, not reality and won’t keep bread on the table. On the other hand I have a very supportive mother who really believes in me and really believes I should pursue a career in fashion but most of the time I feel she’s pushing too hard to the point where I get really defensive and want to tell her to shut the f**k up! Also, I guess I’ve become my own worst enemy. I get critical and am always fearful. I’m scared because I don’t want to fail. I cry a lot physically and emotionally and I’ve thought about suicide but never wanted to carry through plus now I don’t think its a way to solve a problem. Aside from that, reading this post has shed some light and helped me realized that my life is what I make of it. What I’m going through now is a phase, I hope…