DRIVE ON....

heart & mind, originally uploaded by the notebook doodles.

Recently, I have been complaining about not knowing what my next move is going to be, when I will find my dream job, when I will feel settled, how I will know what I am good at so that I can pursue it etc... Then today, my brother pointed out a "guest" response to an interesting article.

The article was about 20-somethings who have degrees, but are still unemployed in this awful economy. It went on to describe how so many 20-somethings are moving back home to their parents houses, are feeling lost in what direction to take their lives and are basically losing hope in ever finding what they are good at. After reading the article and feeling much less alone in my current situation, I read the response my brother pointed out to me.

The response is as follows:

"As someone who is 27 years old, has a Master degree in business after Bachelor's degrees in liberal arts, and has struggled just like everyone else with trying to find a "good job," the honest best thing I can say to someone like Vockel or Lieberman is: get off your ass, and quit complaining so much. Now that you are an adult, nobody will hold your hand and give you the structure you say you crave. You have to find it for yourself, and it doesn't even matter what you choose. Just pick something productive and become really good at it, whether it's making comic books or pickling beets or darning socks or accounting. You can choose anything except sitting on Facebook or whining" ( http://www.good.is/post/young-educated-and-unemployed-a-new-generation-of-kids-search-for-work-in-their-20s/ ).

I couldn't agree more with this 27 year old. After reading this I couldn't help but laugh at how ridiculous I have been in taking my pretty awesome life "so damn seriously". A friend once told me "FIDO". I asked her what that meant, she stated "Fuck It and Drive On". (excuse my french). I totally agree!! It's time to think less, act more and choose ONE thing to pursue instead of trying to be everything right now.

Thank you 27 year old degree holder. You put things in perspective!

Letters to a young poet letter 4

summer suns kisses, originally uploaded by enjoythelittlethings.

A dear friend once shared this quote with me...  and it's how I would like to live my life  (with patience and enjoyment of the unanswered questions! ).


"I would like to beg you dear sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.  Don't search for the answers,  which could not be given to you now,  because you would not be able to live them.  And the point is to live everything.  Live the questions now.  Perhaps then, someday far in the future,  you will gradually,  without even noticing it,  live your way into the answer"  (Rainer Maria Rilke).

Around the world...

For Christmas I asked Santa for a HUGE map of the world,  although my gift came a week after Christmas  ( he must have been busy  ),  I finally got it and I was thrilled!  Sometimes I can stare for very long periods of time looking at globes and maps and drawings of different countries. I love to look at where I am on the world map and then move my finger randomly around the map with my eyes closed,  stop abruptly and see where my finger  landed.  Then I think for a few minutes about that country,  about that culture,  the people, who live there, what they are possibly doing at this exact hour and what life is like there.  Strange,  I know,  but it's fun and makes my imagination go crazy!  You should try it some time!

leave it to fate

leave it to fate, originally uploaded by the notebook doodles.

My current situation in life is an interesting one. Lately I have been faced with a lot of big decisions that I don't have enough feeling, information or understanding for to even come to any conclusion or answers.  It's not a good feeling to be torn, confused or distracted. It's also not a good feeling to be "lost in limbo" and having pressure to make decisions right now or else...

I came across this picture that says "Leave it to fate" and it relaxes me. We need to constantly be reminded that we don't have control of life...and sometimes, all we really can do is let go...and hope things will just fall into place!

That's where I am now. I am just going to "Let It Be" and hope for the best!

Simpleness of a coffee break

reminder, originally uploaded by the notebook doodles.

Sometimes sitting over coffee with a friend for an hour or so can truly turn your day around! Taking a coffee break is good for the soul!