The other day I was on the phone speaking to my grandmother. She was asking if my brother (now a senior in high school) had chosen a college yet and what major he was thinking about. I told her I wasn't exactly sure but they he was in the process of deciding. She proceeded to tell me how lucky we are and that going to college was the best decision we could make; "If I had made better decisions maybe I'd be someone else, but no, I just work at Walmart." Those words make me think, if my grandmother could go back and "revise" her life, I am most certain that she would.
So I do not think that there is a "final draft" of who we are. Things change everyday. We meet new people, we experience new things, we go new places, everything around us is changing right before our eyes so how is it possible for us to remain the same? We have to change, we have to adapt, our life is in constant "revision." I hope throughout my life that I have critiqued and made edits to myself and that I have allowed myself to be subject to other's opinions and views so that I can hopefully be the best version of the "me" I want to be by the time I reach my final days.
But who is to say whether or not I will. There is no "final draft." Things can always get better. Just like in class when we turn in a final draft we have the opportunity to revise it once more. And so in life we have the chance, if we seek out opportunities and choose to change, to constantly revise who we are.
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