Secret Change of Mind

Today's secret comes from a heavy heart. The source hasn't had to keep this secret for long, but the weight of it alone is enough to make him feel like he's been carrying it on his conscious for years.

This secret isn't black and white nor cut and dry. There's a sticky gray area that this disclosure lays on, which makes it just as sticky and gray for the one who has kept it in up until now.

This secret comes from a future grad who's changed his projected path for his future. Up until his senior year, he'd planned on going to NYU to pursue his bachelor's in Accounting. But while attending a career fair over the summer leading up to his senior year, a career in marketing caught his ear.

Before he attended that fair, he always thought of marketing as telemarketers calling number after number, trying to meet their quota. But after going to that career fair, he got a new outlook on what a career in marketing could offer. Enough so for him to consider it as his next move after graduation.

Problem is, the future grad can't find the words to let his parents know that he maybe changing his concentration to a field that they're not too fond of. As a matter of fact, his parents have joked in the past that they'd never send their kid to school for a degree in marketing.

There lays the future grad's dilemma.

He's having a hard time explaining to his parents that marketing is a profession that he would like to explore. He's afraid that his confession will lead to him having to fund his education on his own just so he can pursue the his degree he wants.

Marketing.

But if he wants it enough...he will.

But before it leads to that, he has to figure out how to tell his parents about his change of plans. And hope that they were only joking about never fronting an education in marketing for one of their kids.

I  hope they were, too.




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