and everything's ok

[red_planet]

This week has been filled with drama and frustration. Weeks like this leave me wondering whether or not I should be in this program or even in this field. I usually think I'm on the right path, but every once in a while I'm gripped by panic and feel trapped. At times I feel like my future is so mapped out that it's palpable. That if I wanted to

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[liriteliora]

You're going to be thrown for a loop...because you've written about, you're gonna be thrown for a loop. Doesn't it always happen that way?
Besides, just because you know what your career will be and who your partner is going to be, you still have a lot of variables that will shape what your life looks like.

And you don't know, maybe 5 years from now, a high school friend of yours might just drop by and ask you to help her write another fantabulous book. ;)

I'm not sure this comment has a cohesive moral

[chlorinegoddess]

I realized a little while ago that with as much as our generation has been told "we can be anything we want to be!" it makes it that much harder to actually narrow down what among an infinite number of options we actually will be. And sometimes it can't help but feel like failure, because being, say, a speech pathologist means that you're not a doctor, or lawyer, or Nobel Prize winner. In many ways, we're already past the point of no return on our lives and careers. We are who we are, and it only gets increasingly difficult to switch paths.

My mom now tells me every time I talk to her that "everytime [she] thinks [she] has [her] life figured out, something happens unexpectedly that changes everything around." I'm sure you'll have more surprises than you can imagine in the next 10 years. But congrats on feeling like you have things in order. Lots of people our age would deeply envy that.