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For Those Afraid Of The Future

I'm going to graduate soon, and I'm still not sure what I want to do with my life.

Maddison Boys
Feb 13, 2018
Troy University
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Everyone has their own plans after college, and as I come closer to graduating the more I have to plan, and the more real everything gets. Do I want to be a drone and go into the working force right away? How can I have a career and a social life? I won’t have Christmas, and long breaks off like I do now, should I stay in college? Should I go to grad school? All these questions just swirl in my head especially, is this something that I want to do for the rest of my life? I mean I’m only 21 years old, how am I supposed to know exactly what I want to do!

I have friends that have their lives figured out, some that are getting married, have kids, and others that are just as clueless as I am.

Life can be really difficult and at this point, adulting gets more real than anything I’ve ever seen. Still not sure what I’m going to end up doing with my life, but I do know that I want to travel. I want to travel more than anything else in my entire life. So at this point in my life, I have decided that once I graduate I am going to go into the working force like everyone else, but not for a career just yet.

I want to work, make money, save that money for a few months THEN GET OUT OF THE STATES! The game plan is to backpack through Europe and try to see as much of the world as I can before I go back to reality and become another drone in the world with a full-fledged career.

I have no idea how long I’ll be, or how long I want to stay traveling.

I just want to freelance and be free. Then there’s this other side of me that knows it’s such a fairytale to be able to travel, and freelance doing random things. I wish growing up didn’t have to be so hard, but for all those dreamers, and those who don’t want to follow the norm of life, or stay in school. Just know that there are options and you can do whatever you want.

If you want to go into a career right away GO FOR IT!

More power to you, I wish that I could. If you want to go explore the world and find yourself then do it. We are millennials, we follow our hearts and dreams. So do what makes you happy, and jump into the fear because you won’t get anything out of just staying in the comforts of your home.

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