It's been two years since I last posted. 720 unrecorded days. Hundreds of thoughts and steps down my life's journey. I wonder how far I've really come in that time. I wonder if I can measure the distance forward or backwards, perhaps even laterally. So, it seems fair to recap an endless stream of subcompartmentalized moments in 50 words or less.
I broke ties with my best friend at university. I moved out on my own into the heart of downtown. I switched entire fields of study and career paths; after 3 years of medical science I enrolled into honours psychology. This has been the most difficult and rewarding decision I've ever made in my life. I completely relinquished any and all extracurricular activities. My two best friends from home got engaged. My parents decided to retire in Greece.
In the aftermath of all this it seems fitting to reflect on where I am going. For the first time in nearly 24 years, I'm happy to say that I have no idea. Ever since I was six, my entire life had been predetermined. I was molded for some greater good, an enthusiastic child prodigy. Black belt at 11, dancer, concert pianist, artist, poet, academic, equestrian, archer, and more, I never questioned the intentions my elders had for me. At the tender age of 6 I knew I was going to be a doctor, that I would excel in school, enroll in a prestigious university, and medical program thereafter. Turns out going to university changed all that. After three years of tedious work and unhappiness I turned the tables, and everything I ever thought I knew about myself, on their collective heads and started blindly from square one. For 22 years I had planned my life into retirement, for the past two I've been living in an alinear fashion whereby each step is not only uncharted but is leading me to a destination I have not yet been made aware of. It's exciting. And for the first real time in my life, I'm excited. I don't know what's next, and it's thrilling. I do however know that I am happy, and that I'm brimming with the thoughts of life's possibilities.
So my next step, whether it be a good or a bad one, starts here: Starts at the step that came before it without conscious realization of the steps that may follow thereafter. The possibilities are endless and I'm intent on enjoying the scenery with every new direction I set off in.
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