Buffy Season 3: Choosing Your Future (early access)

The moral case for making sure you choose the right future and the things you need to get them.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

It's a question we all get asked sooner or later. You have to choose something to do with your life and commit to it in a pretty long term way. Parents and other adults will insist upon an answer to the question or at least they want you to think it through and have some idea who you want to be. This places a lot of pressure on young people to make choices which are going to affect the rest of their lives. They will look back on these moments as central to who they are and how it lead them to become the person they are now. Even if they end up choosing something different from what was the initial answer to the question, you can still remember the choices you made, even if you have trouble remembering who you were at the time you did so.

Previously in this space, we looked at what it means to accept responsibility for things you might not have much control over. Then we looked at living with the consequences of your choices and how difficult that can be. However, once you've done these things, you still have to make some kind of choice. You have to be able to go on with your life regardless of these decisions. You have to make choices and in doing so you either limit or expand the number of choices you can make going forward. If you make the right choices, whatever those might be, you can end up in a good place. If you make the wrong ones however, only bad things are likely to happen.

“You made some bad choices Buffy, you just might have to live with some consequences.”