Growing Up | My Gap Year

Do you ever have those moments when you realise you are just one tiny fish in massive ocean? That you're trying to live your life as billions of other creatures try to live theirs. There's no right way to live, so I suppose you just have to make yourself happy. It's hard to know what to do and when.
It's now that time of year again where school starts back, or in many of my friend's cases - university. A totally new step.
I feel there is a lot of pressure on young people to know what they want to do with their lives.
How on earth are you meant to know what you want to do when you've never tried it before? You're job is something you'll have to do for the rest of your life. We've only spent a small time on this earth, and a majority of that time in education where everything is dictated to you.
You go from being in school and college where you get told what to do, to being responsible for your own future and making mature decision and accepting the consequences that are going to effect you for the rest of your life. The idea of growing up terrifies me. To the point I just want to curl into a ball and not think about it at all.
The people who've known exactly what they wanted to be since they were little are very lucky people. But even then you never really know if it's just the 'idea' of it that you like or if you'd truly enjoy it.

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As I'm an August-baby, I'm one of the youngest people in the year. I felt I needed a bit of time to rest after the last few years being so stressful with so much school work. To give myself a bit more time I decided to take a gap year! I felt I needed that time to grow up, gain some life and work experience.

There's so many options and different careers available that it's difficult to know which one is right for me. Obviously university isn't for everyone, and neither is a gap year!
After seeing my friends go to university and enjoying this big change and meeting new people, I've decided I would like to try and go to univeristy. I wasn't sure if it was for me, but I guess I can't knock it til I try it! 
But I will be keeping you up to date with my Gap Year and what I get up to. Goodluck to anyone starting a new job/university!

 

Lynsey xxx