I would love to travel. In fact, there are tonnnns of places that I want to go and visit. Have you seen Jetsetter.com yet? They have some really AMAZING trips on there. Now that I'm on break, there are some days where I just browse through all their flash sales and imagine what it would be like if I didn't have school and actually was making money. Maybe I could go on that Antarctic Expedition...or that Indian Tiger Photo Safari...or that Yukon Dog Sledding trip. AHHH! I want to do all of that!!
Sadly sadly, I am making negative money. And I do not feel good using and asking for my parents to pay for these trips, especially knowing that they themselves do not embark on any adventures of their own.
However...I am taking one trip this year! Nothing spectacular, but going to LV for a couple days. Going to catch a Cirque show. Something I've never seen before, so I'm hoping that that will be well worth it. The first vacation of the year, at the end of the year.
It's frustrating seeing all those status updates about people going on their vacations. Not even their first vacation. 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc, etc. And some of them don't work, are younger, and so forth. It certainly is fabulous that they are able to do so. However, it leaves me wondering, where did I go wrong?
My 20s right? That's when I'm supposed to be enjoying life, vacationing, adventuring. And I thought that I did all the right things. I didn't party and get wild in high school or even college for that matter. I studied hard, got good grades, mapped out a plan for post-graduate life. But throughout these times, I can count on my hands the number of trips I've taken. 2 New York, 1 cruise, 1 S'pore + Thailand + Taiwan.
One day right? "One day it will pay off." I hear that all the time. But reality-wise, I will be quite a bit older and this whole free-living travel phase will be over and it will be time to think about starting a family in which case traveling gets put on hold for another bout of time. And of course there are the loans that must be repaid. And obviously the job that really will not give me much time for much else besides doing it.
That "day" seems very non-existent.
Where did I go wrong?
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