After graduating college, I decided that my next move would be moving. I packed up all my stuff and moved from Denver, Colorado to Austin, Texas. Now many people have asked me questions like "Why Texas?," "What are you going to do when you get down there?," "What do you want to do with your life?" and usually I brush them off with a casual rehearsed answer that sounds something like "Well I plan to take a year off, save up some money then apply to graduate programs in the area."
I honestly moved to Texas because I could. I have always loved the state, and I have always especially loved Austin. I didn't understand why everyone thought I needed this big reason to move. I also didn't understand why "I just want to live there" wasn't an acceptable answer.
I honestly have no plan for my life at the moment, and I don't think I need one. I plan to work for a while, maybe travel, maybe go back to school; but in all honesty I am just here for the ride. I don't want a plan. I just want to live my life and do the things that I want to do.
There is this big push in high school and college to have your entire life mapped out, and if you don't have it mapped out it means that you're behind or something. Right now I am twenty-one, I have no children, spouse, or job holding me anywhere. I figured that this is the only time in my life I can move across the country on a whim. Where needing a plan is not required.
There is also this pressure that comes with planning your life out. Like, if I have no idea what I am going to do with my life at twenty one, then my life will end up being a sad and un-fulfilling one.
I feel like this is the only time where I can really do the things that I want to do before I have to factor other people into that decision. Sooner or later I will have something to tie me down, or something that won't allow me to just do what I want on a whim, but until then I will do what I want, when I want.
