Maybe I left Oregon just in time? Seems like every time I turn around another one of my friends back home is either getting married or having a baby. Sometimes you stop and think where you would be in life if you made different decisions, especially when the decisions that you did make often are split second and by the gut feeling you have.
I just don't know what would have happened if I'd stayed in Oregon. It's not that it's a bad thing to be 23 and married with a baby on the way. It just scares me how I might have missed out on the adventures if I'd made that choice. I know I didn't come from a small town but when the majority of your friends decides that they want to settle down and never leave the place they grew up it makes you wonder.
It's that restlessness coming back in. Someone told me the other day they thought I was a braver person than them for moving away from everything I've grown up with and known to a place where I knew no one and was faced with the challenge of learning a completely new organization and job.....I don't know if it's bravery or insanity. I just know that I wanted some adventure and I took it when I had the chance.
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I know how you feel, many people settle down far to early. Life is all about having fun! :-)
But perhaps there's an adventure in "settling down"... Perhaps there's an adventure in making ends meet when you don't have the options of leaving a place. Perhaps there is adventure in small daily acts of defiance, or in redefining your perspective on the world. Perhaps, just perhaps, adventure is what you make of it, and there may be more bravery in staying than in leaving, for some people. Not that I don't think you were brave to go out, but I wouldn't say your hometown friends aren't brave or adventurous for fighting for what they want in the world.
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