Never Will I..

For those who know me, you've probably heard me say " I will never play soccer after high school." or " this will be the last time I ever take band as a class." I think you can all call me a liar now. On Tuesday I signed up for my fall semester of classes at Rocky Mountain... one of those classes? Concert band; even though I've taken high school band as college credit for the past two years- but who's counting. Plus added bonus: if I take concert band as a class and go play pep band for the school I get paid work study for the time I play. So there's the first thing I lied about.  Onto the second, the thing I've been promising for years. Swearing to Dad that I wouldn't dress out for a school team after high school. That could become false. Today I sent off my soccer resume to the head coach up at Rocky Mountain College. While I'm still not sure if I want to play, and the coach is aware of this.. it doesn't hurt to keep my options open.
The moral behind this is it's okay to change your mind on big and little things. However; it's important to keep in mind that the changes are going to effect you. It may be in a positive way, it may be in a negative way. But hey, no matter what you're going to have learned from the decision you made. When I decided I wanted to be a photographer, it pretty much just came out of the blue. One day I just decided that being a photographer was what I was going to do. Until that day I had on and off thoughts of being an interior designer; these are two completely different things. Now everything I do revolves around photography, without even thinking about it. Because I want to be an event photographer, that means I most likely will start out with a publication of some sort meaning there may be times when I have to write stories about what I took pictures of.. hint hint. But it's not just limited to the writing, I look at things differently now; I think of how I would want to take a picture of them and what the best way to capture that moment would be. Obviously, I see this as a positive change of mind.
A negative change of mind for me would be when I decided it wasn't worth it for me to try and get my Associate's degree because I wanted to have fun during the summer. I ended up working full time during that summer anyways. If I had taken those classes to get that degree, I'd be that much farther ahead of everyone else and closer to being able to have a career and live. Instead I didn't want to put in the effort and now have to start at the bottom despite having 38 college credits. Negative change in mind.
Don't be afraid to do something you said you would never do it. But at the same time, don't let people influence you. For years the reason I didn't want to play college soccer was because my dad kept telling me I should and I wanted to break away from him. I wanted to be my own person, and not the soccer daughter from the soccer dad. Now I'm simply giving myself the option because hey, I'm only signed up for about five classes that fall semester when soccer takes place and maybe, just maybe, I'll want to do it. Changing your mind is okay.