young and ....

Young, careless and free: it is the perfect description of how I feel. I am young and on the edge of beginning my life. With all intentions, being on the brink of graduating from University and moving on with my life is quite exciting. I don't feel sad that my academic career is over because it isn't. Everyday is a learning experience. Learning isn't just in a room with a hundred other people, being spoken to by a professor. Doing and living is a learning experience and on it's own. I will forever cherish my time in University and the different people and things I have learned. I don't understand the people who decide that they are scared of 'reality' and do not want to leave the comfort of the University campus. I find the idea of getting into the reality of the world a new prospect bigger than myself. I will not wish away the rest of my school year, but at the same time I cannot wait. Being able to say goodbye to the only life I have ever known and having a change is enticing. However, graduating and getting a job, doesn't mean you become old and irrelevant. It doesn't mean you are just another set of legs, stomping the regular grind everyday. Life only is as you want it to be. If you think having a career means the end of being happy or living life for the sake of it, think again. I don't intend of being a bore, or staying in after a long day at work. Sleep, and being tired is for those who have given up on the possibilities of fun. Those are the people you don't want to become as they never find the true happiness in their life other than the need for more money that won't buy them the inner joy that a night out with your closest friends would. My favourite part about hanging out with my friends is that months after a good night out, we always end up saying 'hey, remember that night?' I don't have time for people who are scared of moving on with their lives, if all I have to show for my time on this earth by the time I am 30 is several degrees, please shoot me or slap me in the face. I want to pull out pictures of me riding an elephant in Africa, or walking the Great Wall of China and sitting in Stone Henge among the ghosts of the druids. That will be my living, but a doctorate in something I don't care about. For the time being I am enjoying being careless and free. I spend willingly and just live each day as it comes. I don't have anything holding me down and I can do as I wish. Being young and having the freedom to stay out late, getting drunk beyond comprehension, going to work hungover, smoking cigarettes like your immortal, wearing ludacris outfits and laying around the house all day is better than anything in the world. As I stand on the edge of something scary, yet new and different, I am taking in every breath of being young and starting a new chapter of my life. The mature responsibilities can wait, as I will take it in stride being young and taking every last moment to be immature and make poor decisions. What is it Rihanna sings? Cheers, drink to that? Amen.