Pragmatic New Trier

As much as I would love to live in the la la land that the idealist thinkers live in, due to my school I have developed into a very pragmatic thinker. I think this way because my life is based off a series of rules or what you can or can't do. And in these rules, when one is broken, there are consequences. So the all the things I do or say I have to think in reality what will be the outcome of this action. That is why I can't just let everything go, and dream, because I am also in a very competitive situation in my school. I need to stay realistic in my education and in my sports, or I surely will be surpassed by other students who are competing for my spot. As for later in my life I feel that this is stage one, of many ways to think. due to the competitiveness of my education, and the rules set before me I have to stay realistic, but after I pass this first stage, and I prove to my peers and to myself that I am accomplished, that I will be able to be a more idealistic thinker.