Lost...

    I'm finishing grade eleven, and all my friends are talking about what they're going to do after high school - going to certain universities or Bible colleges, traveling, getting jobs... but I don't have a clue what I'm going to do with my life. I have all these random interests and opportunities, but they're disjointed and I just can't put them together! For example, I want to take Political Science and Law after that (if I can get in). But I also want to go to a Bible college or do something to strengthen my faith and prepare me spiritually for the challenges ahead in life.
    I've always said I want to be a lawyer or politician, but now I'm not sure. Being a lawyer, I imagine, would be rather dull and unimaginative, and politics in Canada is just way too nasty. Maybe I'm wrong; I'm not sure. I have many interests... traveling, reading, writing, skating, serving God, history, politics, ect, ect.
    I find my career opportunities branching off into a couple of completely different paths. I could take Political Science, then go into law and become a lawyer or politician. Or after Political Science I could go into journalism. Or maybe I could just completely skip university, and travel around the world, writing or just working wherever I can. That sounds the most fun, but I've always wanted to become well educated and, well, learned. And where does Bible college or missions fit into any of these...?
    I just feel lost, swimming in a huge sea of choices. Where to go, what to do? I know that God has a plan for my life, and he's going to do great things through me, but in a way that just makes me more scared - what if he leads me to do something I don't like for the rest of my life? I know that sounds silly, but really, it's scary because I don't know what God has in store for me. I know it's good to give God the reigns and just let him take me to where I need to go, but it also makes me feel helpless.
    I guess I just have to stay positive and have faith that God will do what's best for me. I need to relax... every once in a while I tense up mentally and plague myself with
"What ifs?". I'm sure it'll all work out. I'll try to keep Psalm 23 in mind...
    Anyone have any thoughts or ideas? Is Law worth going into? Is journalism hard? Is my dream of traveling the world unrealistic?

Brosseau

Photo from CBC article

   Before the election, she was employed as a bartender in Ottawa. But on May 2nd, Ruth Ellen Brosseau was elected to Parliament! Needless to say, her salary has increased significantly. Unfortunately, she was in Las Vegas during the election, partying for her birthday, which got her lots of bad publicity. Later she admitted that she didn't expect to win, and had never even been to her riding (Berthier-Maskinongé) before! Obviously she was elected simply because she was the NDP candidate in her Quebec riding and the province was rapidly turning orange.

   Then the NDP got even more bad publicity because they said that she had a diploma in "Advertising and Integrated Marketing Communications" from St. Lawrence College in Kingston, but she didn't actually graduate!

   The media also jumped on her because she doesn't speak French. I don't think that every MP has to be able to speak French, but it is pretty important if you're representing a mainly Francophone riding in Quebec! To be fair though, she's currently taking intensive French lessons so she can actually understand what her constituents are saying.

   It's good to have young, new MPs in Parliament, but so far she seems very unprofessional. All the same, I think we need give her a chance. New MPs can bring freshness, change, and hopefully respect to our Parliament, and we shouldn't judge people before they've started! In her case, though, cross your fingers... this is going to be interesting!