Let me say this before you read this: I am not bashing anyone for going to college. You do you, but you keep doing you while not judging others for not continuing on the same path as you. We are all so different, and hopefully after reading this article you'll realize how difficult of a decision it is. It comes along with lots of tears and negative comments daily.

"Don't move back to your hometown," they say. "It'll never be the same." "Anybody who moves back home or stays home is never going to get anywhere with their life." Blah blah blah. You hear the same thing no matter where you live. You can live in a big city or a small town, it's all the same, right?

Why are we caring so much about what other people are saying? We think that the second that somebody gets pregnant or gets married, when they're not even of legal age to drink yet. We all freak out. We all have to talk about it. We think that if you do something before you're a certain age that your life is automatically ruined. If somebody moves back home or fails out of college that's none of our business, yet we somehow make it our business.

And we don't need to. That's not something that should make like a headline on a paper.

Ok, maybe like a rape case or something like that, which means getting out kicked out of school. That makes papers, but that's because that's real news.

We have no right to judge other people if they decided college wasn't for them, so they chose to move back home with their mom. They made the choice that wouldn't waste money on a school that wasn't making them happy, or that they were just out there to do nothing.

I'm saying "we" throughout this article because we all do it.

Even if it is subconscious.

Let me say that I have to admit that I was wrong. I said something I thought that when one of my friends dropped out of college and moved back home. All she did was work at a daycare, and I thought that her life was over. I had always been told that we all had to do things a certain way. I thought that she was going to get absolutely nowhere, but boy was I wrong.

It's sad that it took me so long to realize it, but it took me doing the same thing to realize what she did she was so brave.

She did that our freshman year of college. How do you decide that when you were 18 or 19 years old? You already made the decision to go off to college, and then made the decision to come back. She had to suck up all of the hateful comments, but they only have comments about it because they didn't do the same thing.

Most people are so miserable in college, and they all stick through it because they think, "Oh I'm going to get such a good job!", but is that really what happens? Most of the time people wait years to be able to get their dream job after they graduate, or at least a job that they don't completely hate.

The next time you hear somebody just dropped out of college, or that they decided to move back home for some reason, maybe try to reach out to them and make sure they are okay, instead of just judging them behind their backs.

Most of the times you don't know the actual reason unless you ask them. You have absolutely no right to be able to judge them or have a say in what they decided to do.

Trust me, from experience, they know that it is not the easiest decision because it's not, but it could be the best decision of their life.

Don't go put your two cents in just because you went to college, so you know that people are able to get through it. You don't know their life, you don't know what they have been through.

Everyone has a different experience that they have in college, so you shouldn't be allowed to say, "Well I made it through college, so you can stick it out", no that's not how it works.

Don't make somebody feel bad because of something that they decided to do. It is their life, and it's not yours. It could possibly affect yours, but I highly doubt that it will. If you know absolutely nothing about the situation, and you just want something else to gossip about because your life is going nowhere, think about it more next time.

Leave me out of your dinner table discussion.