Float Along.

I realize that a fair amount of my posts have been direct and indirect insights of my feelings on growing up and growing old. I don't know why, but growing up is something that I've been completely resistant to.

This isn't how I always was. I used to be excited about growing up. Excited about high school. Excited about college. Even excited about college graduation. Then something changed. Then I got a 'big girl' job. One of those jobs that requires your appearance from 9-5 five days a week. One that gives you 10 days off a year.
Let's just say this: Having a 'career' type of job just absolutely flipped me out.

It truly boggles my mind how much people work. I mean, maybe I needed a reality check way before I graduated college, but I just still can't get over the fact that for my entire life I had roughly 4 months of free time every year, year after year. Then, all of a sudden I have two weeks? Which really isn't even two weeks because I would've had the weekend part of those weeks off anyways? For the rest of my entire life? Why did no one inform me of this before? I mean, it just doesn't seem like there's any light at the end of the tunnel. It's just week after week - nothing to look forward to - but more work. And that is seriously one of the scariest things in life that I'm still trying to come to terms with.

I just really feel deep down in my soul that there is so much more to life than work. Yes, I get it. I don't need a lecture that I've already gotten on numerous occasions. You need to work in order to live. (Theoretically.) I mean, I've seen lots of people that are alive and don't work. Just walk outside Union Station and you'll run into at least 4 or 5. But yes, I get the point.

But this is the deal. This is my feeling on 'real' work:
You have your whole life to work. And you'll probably spend your whole life at work. Whether you start at 22 or you start at 27, I guarantee you'll be working for the majority of the rest of your life. So why not take these few extra years in between when you leave college and when you start a real career to explore. Explore who you are, and explore the world. Just float along, and see where it takes you. It's a time in your life when floating is okay. Because when you're 40, have your own family and are dedicated to your dead end job, it's pretty much impossible to just one day get up and exit the building. That's why it's best to avoid entering the building at all, until what's outside the building has already been discovered.