Finding My Destination

I recently read this in an article that I found while browsing the internet:

"Not all who wander are lost. When we were children we were told what to do. In our jobs, we are assigned tasks and projects. Our culture even has expectations of what we should do. It’s OK to step outside of the lines in order to follow what your inner wisdom is suggesting you do with your life. It’s not that you are lost when you wander, it’s just the opposite: You know what you want and you are only attempting to find the best path to your destination."

My 25th birthday was a few weeks ago and I found myself faced with a lot of feelings of being "behind in the game."  I haven't done anything for longer than a year since leaving college- I've had several different jobs, moved several times, and am still searching for what's going to make me happy in life.

Several people that I grew up with and went to college with have thriving careers, are engaged, married, buying houses, having kids,  etc.  I'm not doing any of those things.  But that doesn't mean that I'm lagging behind everyone else, or that I'm wandering aimlessly though life.  Quite the opposite.  I'm exploring life and waiting to settle until I've found what really makes me happy.  Maybe those people got lucky and have already found what makes them truly happy early in life.  Really, it's no one's business besides their own.

But I do know this for sure: I'm not on a schedule.  Not anyone else's, not even my own.

I have no doubt that I'll settle down, buy a house, get married, and do all the other "grown up" things.  Eventually.  When the time is right, those things will happen for me too.  But, for now, I'm too busy exploring the world around me and learning about myself... and maybe being a little reckless while I still can.