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I Am Lost In Life

I don't think college will ever suit me. I have this gut feeling that I am wasting my time and money there. I want to drop out but I don't know if my parents will approve. I am willing to pack up my bags and go out into the world on my own. I believe this path will benefit me more. All my life I have been kept too safe. I believe my parents made my life too easy for any chance to discover who I really am and what lifestyle suits me. All my life I've lived the typical suburban lifestyle and I feel trapped because things are too comfortable here. I am 20yrs old but I feel like most of those years were wasted and they were because I didn't become compatible with my lifestyle....I should've just listened to my parents when they were trying to prepare me for the lifestyle I had planned for me. I should've listened to all their commands from the very start but I didn't. I believe I could've been compatible with my environment had I began earlier but now too much time has past for me to "catch up". I have spent the past 2 days trying to figure out how to use my graphing calculator all so that I can solve 1 question for my math homework. I will tough this one out for 1 last semester but that'll be where my college life started and ended. I'm only 2 weeks in and I feel like I've made a terrible mistake. I believe my original plan would've worked out better than this path.

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LireaSemaji · 26-30, F

I know how you feel. I went through the same thing. I've been the suburbs for years and lives pretty comfortably. Parents were always there for me when i needed help and they still are but i went ahead and dropped out of school in the middle of my second semester. My parents were fine with it being that i wasnt failing anything when i left and they werent paying for it i was. So plan B was the military. That didnt workout and i was severly upset with everything after that. I was mad at everything because i couldnt believe that i've wasted all this time with nonsense when i should almost be a senior in college. Society makes you feel like you need to have everything figured out by the time you graduate highschool. Dude we're only 20 years old. We have all the time in the world to figure things out. Take a year off school and think about it. Keep going through this semester and tell your parents you want to take a year off and work. It gives you time to find yourself. You're gonna be alright.

freeflow · 70-79, M

If you see your education through, you can always go a-wandering after. But this way you'll have something behind you to use if employment demands it.

Most of us get that wanderlust yearning when your age, and older.

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