Future Literate Me

For this final blog, I have to talk about the future, something no one will ever be able to predict. Sure, I have many hopes, dreams, and goals in life, but probably not all of them will come true because, as time goes by, my goals will change. I might say that I want to be a doctor or a lawyer now, but I'm only sixteen; I have absolutely no idea what I will become.

In my future literacy, I hope that I will be able to read more than just textbooks, or words located on food menus because I am terrible at cooking, so take out will probably be in my future. I want to be able to read challenging books and actually understand them without having to have someone explain to me what is happening in them. I want to be able to recite and understand well-known poetry the way Ms. Diana can. I remember once when I was watching a show called Criminal Minds, one of the characters was narrating the end of the episode by reciting a famous quote and stating who said it; the narrator described the quote with his own words and translated it in context to the case he was working on. One day, I wish I could quote literature that effortlessly, but it will certainly not be easy at first because I am not really good at memorizing things like names of people and dates. Sometimes the facts get mixed up in my head and I forget who said what exactly; I think that happens to most people at some point.

There is a lot that I hope will happen in my future literacy, but there is also a good chance that what I hope for does not come true. In reality, I bet that I will not read as often as I would like to think and I will probably not be able to quote famous poets in my everyday life, well at least if I don’t watch more Criminal Minds (a good reason to watch more TV right?). If I really want my future literacy to expand, I have to make time to do it—make it one of my priorities. As for the more immediate future, such as tomorrow or a few weeks from now, I do not really see my literacy going very far because I have a lot to do before senior year begins. Who knows, I might just find the perfect moment when I have nothing to do, and in that moment I will pick up a book and just read it.