6.) What areas of the world do you know little about and how would you like to find out more information about these places?

I don’t know Europe very well. It has always been very intriguing to me, though. I would love to find out more information about it by actually going there. I want to go backpacking for about 6 months or so. I remember watching high-school cliché movies when I was like, 8 or so, and the conversation would go as follows:

 

“So what do you think you’re gonna do after this?”

“I’m gonna go backpacking across Europe for a year or so. Go find myself. How about you?”

“Oh, nice. I don’t know what I’m gonna do.”

 

Now that the end of high school is basically reality now, and it’s so much easier to picture than when you were 8, backpacking Europe fresh out of high school seems almost… whimsical. It’s unrealistic. Either those kids in the movies are extremely wealthy and can support themselves or today’s society has become so obsessed with the image of success that anything but post-secondary education after high school is out of the question.

 

I mean, I can’t imagine and I don’t think anyone in my graduating year will be doing something like that. Speaking for myself, my parents would kill me if I did.

 

That’s what I keep thinking about. If I continue education after high school, then get my degree, then my Masters, then go into the workforce and build my way up the corporate ladder, when am I ever going to get the time to do what I want?

 

I’ll be stuck in the routine. And I don’t want that. I never want to be stuck.

 

I’m rambling. I will stop now.