not a straight line. Life is not a set
timeline of milestones. It is okay if you don’t finish
school, get married, find a job that supports you, have a
family, make money, and live comfortably all by this age, or
that age. It’s okay if you do, as long as you understand
that if you’re not married by 25, or a Vice President by
30 — or even happy, for that matter — the world
isn’t going to condemn you. You are allowed to backtrack.
You are allowed to figure out what inspires you. You are
allowed time, and I think we often forget that. We choose a
program right out of high school because the proper thing to do
is to go straight to University. We choose a job right out of
University, even if we didn’t love our program, because
we just invested time into it. We go to that job every morning
because we feel the need to support ourselves abundantly. We
take the next step, and the next step, and the next step,
thinking that we are fulfilling some checklist for life, and
one day we wake up depressed. We wake up stressed out. We feel
pressured and don’t know why. That is how you ruin your
life.
