Do You Ever Feel...
Like the rest of the world is moving while you're standing still? I don't know what it is lately but I feel like everyone around me is advancing in their lives/careers/education and I'm just sitting passively, watching them succeed in their various endeavors. I know that I'm only 20, soon to be 21, but I feel like I should've done more with my life by now. In highschool I was unstoppable. I had a great job, I spent weekends out with my friends, I traveled to 10 countries and 14 states, as well as Washington D.C. Now it's pretty much school and work, school and work-day in and day out that's all I do. The only time I'm motivated to do anything with my life is when I'm at work. I love my job. Since I left for University, a good number of my friends have gotten married and/or had kids. Some of them went to work full time, some of them went into the military, and others went to get degrees in their field of choice. I guess more then anything I just feel like I'm stuck in a rut. I hate being in one place for this long. I love to travel, to see other cultures, other people, other ways of life. Since I've been at University, I've only really traveled twice-and both of them were short trips. I'm thinking about just taking the whole month of May and traveling, where-I don't know, with who-again I don't know, but maybe it will give me some motivation. Does anyone else feel like life just got boring?
posted by Jen @ 9:36 AM
3 Comments:
I know what you mean - everyone is passing you by - I never expected to be an at-home parent, but after 3 years of it, I'd trade my college degrees and all my resume ANYTIME for what I've gained from raising my sons. I've now only got to see them grow, but learned so much about myself in the process. I still get jelous listening to how "good" other people may have it...butI wouldnt change things.
Having said that, it's always important to keep yourself "driven". You may not be going the same places as those you admire, but make sure that you at least going "somewhere". Always have a dream to chase. (For me, martial arts has been a great hobby/interest/stress reliever/goal. It's something I can talk and share with the family, but I get to do alone.)
Shannon
I think it is more of a shift in my priorities...after being DINKs for so long, it was a huge adjustment for my husband and I not to travel and have the freedom that we do NOT have now. But, that's okay. We find our happiness in other things here at home now.
We also know that we have the rest of our lives to go the places we want to go and do the things we want to do...that's what keeps us going. For now, though, we're okay right where we are.
We all get in a rut. Do something you've never done before, whether big or small. Go somewhere you've never been.
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