Better late than never!

You don’t know what you’re doing? No worries, no one else does either.

Anyone else feel the intense pressure as a twenty-something year old, to have your life together? Yeah same.

Cant lie, I definitely feel like this pressure is only made worse by the doom and gloom stats thrown our way. Our standard of living is rising. The chances of us being homeowners are slim to none. Social media is ruining our generation. We will probably never repay our student loans. And it is under these circumstances that we must travel and live our best life and save money because life is still tight.

Sigh.

The pressure is immense. Pressure to be ‘making-moves’, pressure to appease our parents and make it look like we’re not as jobless as we may look and / or feel. Basically, what I’m trying to say is, according to society, being 20-something at this point in time, is all long. Which it is, to an extent. However, recently, I have personally become more determined to write my own narrative. Stay with me.

I’m almost 21 and in all honesty, I still have no idea what I want to do. I just have vague ideas about the sorts of careers and projects I’d like to venture in to. So I’m not completely clueless, however, sometimes I just feel like, why can’t I be like Alesha who knows that she wants to be an investment banker in central London with a salary of 100K a year? I envy people with that kind of certainty because they can focus their efforts better and work towards something solid. That level of certainty is reassuring. It’s the not knowing that personally drives me crazy.

If you also, are plagued with thoughts comparing yourself to your seemingly more ‘accomplished’ agemates, let’s just not. At the end of the day, I am not Alesha, and Alesha is not I. The trajectory of our lives are completely different, so why waste time staring at her lawn when I could be watering mine? Basically, we’re all on our own journey’s here, and we should OWN IT.

You don’t have to have your life together. You don’t have to know your end destination. You’re only job is to work on you. Take every opportunity afforded to you and make the most of it. Learn from every experience and make the effort to take yourself outside your comfort zone. Live life on purpose. Focus on the things that you’re passionate about and that stir something in you. Just because you haven’t decided what you want to do, does not mean you have to behave like a bum! 

I wont lie, this was mostly a pep talk for myself, but I figured I can’t be the only that feels like this sometimes. Ah, you don’t know what you’re doing? Don’t worry, no one else does either. Just walk by faith, choosing to believe that your story is a good one. Stay determined to experience everything beautiful about life. By the time you get where your meant to be, you’ll look up and realise just how epic your journey has been.

You don’t know what you’re doing? All good. You don’t really need to.

Jeremiah 29:11

P.s. I wrote this over a year ago and I'm just coming across this now. I have no idea why I didn't publish it earlier!! Im posting this anyway, it could be useful. Could😂