A 12 Year Old's Autobiography-Final Chapter
Oh to Be 25 Again..
When I am 25
Sherri age 12- "When I am 25 I will probably be a professional soccer player. But if I'm not a professional soccer player, I will be a lawyer and earn a lot of money and defend innocent people so they can have justice if innocent."
"I would like to be a pro soccer player and travel to different places. I would like to go to Canada to play for their soccer team because I like Canada and soccer."
"If I couldn't play soccer I would want to be a lawyer and earn a lot of money and help innocent people. Lawyers are very helpful to people who need a lawyer."
"If I was a lawyer I would fight in court for my client, if I thought my client was innocent. If I thought the person I was defending wasn't innocent I would probably drop the case."
Wow, ok, so maybe I was living in fantasy world in 6th grade. I will say that I loved soccer as a kid and it was the first sport I played on an actual team. I started playing soccer in 3rd grade and it gave me a chance to make friends, to be responsible and to exercise. I even played in a soccer tournament in Las Vegas, it wasn't Canada, but it was still fun!
The lawyer thing, well, I did want to be a lawyer because I always had the urge to help people. Apparently when I was 12, I was also fond of the potential money I could make as a lawyer. The big problem I had with law was that I wasn't going to just be able to drop my guilty clients. When I figured that out, I dropped the lawyer idea.
I went a slightly different route and chose law enforcement as a police officer. I figured I could still help people, and this way I could put the bad guys in jail and let someone else defend them. Cops may not make as much money as lawyers, but it is an extremely rewarding career. Besides, when we played cops and robbers as kids, I was always, always a cop. No one ever played lawyers and robbers, right? At age 25, I was attending the police academy as a police recruit in Fresno, California.
If you want to read any of the other 3 published parts of my 6th grade autobiography, click the links below.
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Post a CommentLOL E.T. that is awesome for you! Congrats:-) I guess there were other little girls out there that shared my dreams...
By the age of 25 I had played professional soccer in the MLS and am now in law school (I'm 26) . Is this an excerpt from my 12 yr old autobiography?
:)! from your teammate!
Nice article.....now, any similar stuff from you high school years? :o)
Neat :)
I read this one first so I'm going back and read the other chapters. It is great to think about what we wanted out of life when we were young. Nice that you even still have it.
I agree with Greenhill. Some people are quite a bit older and still don't know. Thanks for sharing your autobiography!!
at least you were thinking about it! There are 50 year olds still deciding what they want to be when they grow up!
No one played lawyers and robbers 'cause lawyers are robbers, right? lol (JK, since some lawyers are actually good and honest...I do know a few). Loved this series by you, by the way. Sorry it is ending.
how very searching your mind was in the direction of justice, and discerning and mature for you to have said at age 12, " I will...defend innocent people so they can have justice 'if innocent'." already you were being fair-minded and level-headed and objective about justice even about the ones you would be a defender to, on the off-chance or possibilty that they actually weren't "innocent." Wish I had something written of mine from when I was that age. good for you, lady.