When You're Young

When you're young, you are the most vulnerable. You don't know what's out there, and you don't know what you want in life. You don't know what you want to do yet. Yet, we are forced to fit into a mold, to find a career, to become a label, to be the person that other people want you to be. We are forced and molded to want to be succesful, to want to settle down to have children, to want to be what everyone else is.
When you're young you should be able to do whatever you can, or whatever you feel is right. If you want to dye your hair pink, dye your hair pink. We should be able to learn from our mistakes and be able to say "I'm glad I did that," not "I wish I did that." We have the rest of our lives to cringe at our mistakes that we make now. Maybe we even cringe at the things we used to do as little as two years ago.
When you're young, your parents try to shield you from the world, to tell you you can't do things.
And when you get old, you become a verison of them, with the dreams of being something else stuck in your heart forever, caged, with no way out.
We never stop growing. People are like infinite independent variables, they always change. Time is the dependant variable that we always measure the time that has passed. We always go foreward, and it is always measured. Our lives at the end are like the final thing that we find out the outcome, we never know completly what will happen to us in the end. We will only know the outcome when the end of our lives come. We could get married and divorced. We could have eight kids.
We just never know.