Taking The Semester Off: UPDATE

Alright, so I'm about knee deep in this whole taking the semester off thing.

So far, it just feels like an endless summer, except most of my friends have disappeared or are constantly stressed out and I'm constantly in a "Sound of Music" state of mind.

The "Sound of Music" state of mind referring to the part where she's running around on the hill top, not the Nazi part.

My days are usually full of sleeping in until 10am or so, spending time with my mom, bumming around the GlenEd area running various errands that I usually have to do, going to the gym, cooking, working at T-sno or the church and reading. LOTS of reading.

It also helps to have a project to make the time pass faster. My current project is getting my ass to England to have my "Sound of Music" state of mind in the middle of the UK and meet my prince charming. It's actually pretty daunting, really. I have to fly to London by myself, find my way to the hotel by myself, then find my way to David's by myself and then to the airport in his town by myself... wait, no, he's dropping me off at the airport.

I have pretty much all of this figured out, which one of my friends doesn't like cause he thinks that it takes away from the adventure of the all, but I have 16 full days to be wreckless.

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I've only meet one other person who is taking this semester off and her reasons are different from mind. After attending college for 2 years, she still doesn't know what to do with her life, so she decided to stop wasting her parents money and her time and take the semester off.

I'm reminded of something that Hank Green made a vlog about concerning this. In today's day in age, we're always pressured to know what we're doing in the future, work for the future. But when someone steps out and says I don't know what I want to do with my future, it's looked upon as admirable or foolish.

I personally think that its admirable to not know what to do with your life at this current juncture of age. I'm 20, an adult by some standards, not by others, and I don't have it all figured out. I think that a lot of other people my age do have it figured out and some think they do but don't.

I don't want to turn into the older adult version of myself and not have experienced what I'm experiencing right now. Some version of carefree-ness. Some version of not knowing what tomorrow is going to bring. Some version of being hopelessly in love with a man you shouldn't be, but you can't help it because he gets you in a way you've never experienced before and you're ready to run off to his home country just to see if you two click the way you both want to in person.

I guess that what I'm getting at here is that, despite what society or your parents tell you, it's ok to not have it figured out, because I think that a lot of them wish they could admit that, but they can't cause they're adults.

But things are going well :D

Over and out ♥