What am I doing with my life???

Sometimes I just think to myself, what am I doing with my life? What is the point? Don't get me wrong, I am a very happy person and really like my life. But the big BUT is why am I not just traveling around seeing the world having all kinds of crazy experiences? I don't have to be the "responsible, put together" version of me that I happen to be...nah that can come later in life-right?

You see after college, I took a little detour and took 7 months to just "did my thing" as I describe it. I backpacked around Oz and NZ, stayed in hostels, met people from all over the world and honestly had the time of my life. There is no other point in my life where I can remember having more fun and being so content!

Since this time I have gradually gotten more and more "grown up" if you will. Don't get me wrong I have done my share of cool travels/things since then but still they are always limited to a week or two max.

So sometimes I think...bump this. I should just quit my job, sell everything and buy a plane ticket to somewhere, anywhere and start my journey. Why not, right? Or maybe even sign up with an organization to teach English or do some kind of charity work. Really just anything that gets me out of the norm.

So what holds me back... not sure? I guess the older you get, the harder it gets. It starts to seem irresponsible or you start thinking about all the "what ifs". What if I have a hard time getting back into the business world when I return? What if I miss out on key times of my family and friends lives? What if, what if etc. etc....

But again what is the point? Does life have to be defined by the norm? What is the norm? Who decided we were suppose to go to college, get a job, get promotions, get married, have babies, quit work and be a house mom, go back to work, retire with the hubby and then die and go to heaven?? I mean don't get me wrong, I want all of that but I also want so much more. And maybe even my life won't look anything like that, that's cool.

Anyways what are the rules? And thus this brings me back to my initial question, "What am I doing with my life?" Answers?

Until next time...blog on!