Mind over Soul

Last week was an important week for me. I looked at all my future options, in order to determine what I might want do after I leave school (which isn’t for another year and a half though). I haven’t visited any universities yet, but I have nearly come to a conclusion anyway; psychology.

A great part of what defines one’s individuality is the mind. Emotions, actions and reactions are all determined by the way that each one of us thinks. To me, one of the most interesting occupations is to find out exactly how our minds and actions are connected. To be able to analyse a person in order to determine why they behave the way they do, and how they can change themselves, is one of my goals. In a way that’s what I’m doing with myself in this blog. The only thing I need, before I can study psychology, is to have finished mathematics on a VWO level. No other requirements are needed, which is good for me, as I don’t have any other subjects that I actually understand in school.

Of course there is always the good chance that I don’t get accepted into the university (of Amsterdam). In that case, I have a back-up plan. At the SAE (also in Amsterdam) there is a study that I can do, which would last two years. I would be studying audio technology and how to use it properly. This is a beginning of getting a career in music. In the end, I would get a Bachelor of Arts degree, which would be awesome. Nevertheless, this is a back-up plan and I am not going to do this study if I have been accepted into psychology.

Figuring this out is very important to me, because I haven’t had a clue what I was going to do in life. I was one of the small children who answered “dunno” when they were asked what they wanted to be when they grew up, while the other kids gave answers like “police officer”, “soldier” and even (*sigh*) “lawyer”. It’s still a vague future, but at least I have crossed off a few possibilities, by choosing a study.