CHANGE OF PLANS
Since I haven't written a journal in waaaaaayyy too long, here's a ridiculous change of plans on my life!
I think I've just decided to take my senior year of college off and travel.
I would do it sooner, but next year I've already made plans to return to college and take classes, and in the spring I'm studying abroad anyway (ITALY 2010!! XD).
I just don't want to reach graduation and realize the prime opportunity for me to do something like this is gone. So, I'm going to 'jump now and fear later' as some people say.
It's always been my dream to visit Africa and Australia (I'm starting to think Europe is a little overrated and superficial), so I plan to spend my senior year in both of those countries getting a job and a good enough place to live. When I've had my fun, I'll come back and finish school, get my degree, and head into work as an Italian/ Spanish teacher. This way I'll live my dreams and then when I start my career, I'll at least have a recent year of school behind me.
Despite all this I'm absolutely terrified. I'm terrified of going alone and starting somewhere completely foreign. It's gonna take a lot of guts, but I just don't want to reach age 30 and realize my youth is gone and all I've done is go to school so that I can get a job. That's not what I was given life for. So I'm going to live it, and do what I want now; not hope that I can do it when I'm old.
After all, you never really know how long you have. If I died tomorrow, what have I done? Gone to school to get a job I'll never have? If I travel, at least I know I will have lived because I will have lived my dream.
I think I've just decided to take my senior year of college off and travel.
I would do it sooner, but next year I've already made plans to return to college and take classes, and in the spring I'm studying abroad anyway (ITALY 2010!! XD).
I just don't want to reach graduation and realize the prime opportunity for me to do something like this is gone. So, I'm going to 'jump now and fear later' as some people say.
It's always been my dream to visit Africa and Australia (I'm starting to think Europe is a little overrated and superficial), so I plan to spend my senior year in both of those countries getting a job and a good enough place to live. When I've had my fun, I'll come back and finish school, get my degree, and head into work as an Italian/ Spanish teacher. This way I'll live my dreams and then when I start my career, I'll at least have a recent year of school behind me.
Despite all this I'm absolutely terrified. I'm terrified of going alone and starting somewhere completely foreign. It's gonna take a lot of guts, but I just don't want to reach age 30 and realize my youth is gone and all I've done is go to school so that I can get a job. That's not what I was given life for. So I'm going to live it, and do what I want now; not hope that I can do it when I'm old.
After all, you never really know how long you have. If I died tomorrow, what have I done? Gone to school to get a job I'll never have? If I travel, at least I know I will have lived because I will have lived my dream.