Comments | _nicoline_: contemplations on life

_nicoline_

contemplations on life

Nov 02, 2006 05:04

Why am I always so resistant to the lifestyle that has been expected and practically destined for me? I think of what would really be making me happy and it's not what I'm doing right now. I would like to be living in some little cabin in new hampshire or somewhere, spending my days hiking, reading, skiing or whatever I felt compelled to at that ( Read more... )

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_hannahbelle November 2 2006, 18:40:40 UTC

hey, take a semester to hike the AT with meaghan and i. you can set up projects with professors to get credits while doing it (an independent study, eh?) and you can be doing what you love and working towards you future. thatll give you time to think/reflect/hike/etc.

i think we're planning on doing it next spring ('08.)

_nicoline_ November 5 2006, 16:03:34 UTC

that was actually my original plan when I was going into college...to take the semester when kids usually go abroad and hike. But then I became a spnish major and decided to go to Spain that semester which I am really really excited for actually. I'm planning on staying in Spain that summer as well and hiking the Comino Santiago which runs along northern spain. My plans for hiking the AT have been pushed back to after I graduate, probably the next year because it'd be too late to start the summer after graduation. So that is why my parents aren't really thrilled with the idea, they don't think I'll be able to get a job if I wait to get one until a couple years after graduation. But whatever, hiking the at is more important than a job in my book.

how's life going for you by the way? I miss you guys. I know we always say we shold get together and then never do but we really should sometime soon. Winter break perhaps??

splashoflife November 2 2006, 20:47:40 UTC

it sounds like you have the drive jaim, & i know you have the courage.

p.s. - budge over, i'm moving into that cabin with you- it sounds like heaven.

shrouded_dream November 15 2006, 20:47:35 UTC

this is coming a little late but it makes sense what you say.

i hope are already to fulfill your goals and dreams, and that it wouldn't have to be about money but that you'd be able follow your own path freely.