Waiting Too Late to Follow a Dream

    In The Alchemist, the crystal merchant thinks that it’s “too late” to change because he’s been a shopkeeper for 30 years.  In Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” we talked about how “way leads to way,” and often you can’t change roads in life.  I think that you can’t change roads because you think that you don’t have enough money to switch over, or maybe you’ve had the same job for 30 years like the crystal merchant and have already gotten used to the way things are and therefore don’t want anything to change.

     Next, I think that people probably get “stuck” with the decisions they make because, for example they want to go to medical school but think that they can’t afford it so they find a job that they don’t really like thinking that they can save up enough to go back to medical school in a couple of years.  Then 20 years later they find themselves still working on that same job, wasting so many years of their life when they could be working at a hospital, doing what they love.

     Lastly, I think that you can prevent this from happening and it’s not an inevitable part of growing up because you can get scholarships and/or loans from the bank to help pay for things and then after you start your job, you can pay back money from the loan.  You can also start saving your pennies when you are young and that does add up fast!  In short, I think you can get stuck, but there are ways to prevent it.