Ah, quarter-life crisis. How nice to see you.

[scarylullabiez]

I am seriously considering taking next semester off and focusing on bellydancing for a while. Dancing is one of my most favorite things, but somehow it's ended up on the back burner. Of all my hobbies/work/studies, I spend the least amount of time on it. Which is why I have been experiencing a total lack of progress for the last two years.

But then this other part of me is sure that if I go through with this, it'll just be because I'm subconsciously trying to flee from my responsibilities.

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[calicokat.livejournal.com]

My experience with college was...poor. I was in college for six years, more or less. I had all A's and B's the first three. Then I had a bit of a breakdown and I took a semester and the summer off. I tried to get any job but college, but failed mostly because it was right after Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans evacuees had taken every job in town (fast food, book store, pet supply store, gas stations...). I went back to college to keep up my insurance and kind of tanked my GPA.

I'm still basically in a terrible rut trying to find my professional job with my current level of education in an ass poor economy.

Now, take my friend Bree, half of Moira Rogers.

She had a college crisis, and had the choice to move back into her parent's or crash with a fandom friend with whom she basically shared a love of Hugh Jackman's ass. Now she's married, completed college a few years later, has a steady job, and is now a WILDLY sucessful romance novelist on the side with the friend she moved in with at that time to whose children she is an aunt.

So...don't write what you love to do off as trying to flee from responsibilities, I guess, is the moral, I think. At any rate, it's certainly a strong suggestion that there's more than one way to success and yours may rely on chance and passion.

[scary-lullabies.livejournal.com]

That is pretty much the story of my college life, right there. It's very comforting to hear it from someone I admire and respect. :)

I dunno, I always question my motives. Maybe I don't trust myself or something.