Some days back, I asked my baby sister in JS 3 what she wanted to be in "future". And I loved her reply.

"I don't know yet", she said so candidly.

Most of us grew up being put under pressure to know what we wanted to become in future as kids. When we barely knew ourselves.

I wanted to be a petroleum engineer from JS 1. I didn't even know what it meant.

But I held that ambition till I got to Senior Secondary School, and joined the Science class.

Now, I am naturally inclined to the Arts and would have done well. But I went to the Sciences -

and struggled extra because it wasn't meant for me.

I forced myself to go and stay in the Sciences simply because I had an ambition from JS 1 to be a petroleum engineer.

I know classmates who wanted to be doctors, lawyers, etc. No specific reason. Just societal conditioning.

All of us are grown but still trying to figure ourselves. We're changing jobs, switching careers, constantly realizing that there is a lot more to life that we likely didn't know or think about earlier.

Now imagine expecting a CHILD to know what they want to be in FUTURE.

It is also important to know that when we ask children what they want to be in future, we're trying to insinuate that the future is a particular place.

But it isn't.

The future is a journey that starts from the next second. The future is a series.