what i want to do VS what i'm expected to do
16th June, 2025
it's kind of shitty how with age comes certain life milestones people expect you to have achieved. graduate school, get your driver's license, get a job, find a partner, move in together, get married, start a family... etc. etc. safe to say i am a failure with these socially expected milestones. i think they're not for everyone and that it's silly to expect every single person to go down the same general path. we're all human beings with different needs and wants out of life. life is not one homogeneous experience; it looks different for everyone.
i just wish society as a whole understood that.
in an ideal world i would make my living doing something very different to what i currently do. but the pieces of my life haven't been played out in a way that makes that possible, so for now i'll keep at what i'm doing and just take each day as it comes.