On being a "grown-up"...

I just had an epiphany of sorts this afternoon whilst driving in my car. It was this:


life. is. happening.


As in... I feel like the past four years at uni I've been waiting to finish uni, as though my degree should have prepared me for something. I guess that is the idea of it but with the situation I'm in you know... looking for work not in the area of my degree discipline... it hasn't really done that in an intellectual sense.


Anyhow, I just realised that I can't be spending all my time just waiting for the next thing to happen. So uni was spent waiting to finish uni. And now I'm waiting to get a full time, PAID job, and then I'll be waiting to get a promotion, to get a bigger house, better car, flatter TV... waiting to find a husband, to get married, to have children, for children to grow up.... oh my days the list goes on doesn't it. Until eventually I'll just be literally waiting to die. The saying:


"Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans"


keeps popping into my head, and I don't want that to happen! Not currently sure what to do about it though, or how to erase that mindset of waiting for the next "big thing" in my life to occur, as though that is what is going to satisfy me and allow me to really then take control of my life... or something...


hmm... please feel free to share any thoughts in the comments. :)