Thursday, April 15, 2010

Uncertain.

For the first 18 years of your life everything is planned for you. When you are in 3rd grade, you know next year you will be in 4th grade - and so forth all the way up to 12th grade. Then you graduate from high school and everyone takes their own path. But for the most part these different paths are still composed of basically predictable parts. I went to college where I knew after freshman year came sophomore year and so forth. I even followed a planned "course map" mandated by the food science department. Now that phase of my life is over and I'm married, working, and living on a foreign coast - and everything seems a bit more uncertain. Not uncertain on a day to day basis as most of my weeks are the same, but uncertain in the long 5-10 year run. Part of me thinks this uncertainty is exciting. Nathan and I can make whatever we want out of our lives. We can go anywhere, do anything, and decided for ourselves. A lot of times I sit and think about all the possibilites and adventures we have in store. Its just a matter of realizing what goals are most important and going for them. But another part of me feels really anxious about all this uncertainty. It seems like we have a lot of big decesions to make in the next year or so in regard to careers, where to live, family, and so forth. I feel blessed that we don't have to make all these decesions on our own though. Thanks to prayer that is. It is crazy to think that unlike the last 10 years of my life, I have no idea where I'll be in the next 5 even 2 years! But how awesome is it I get to decide? Because there is no 23th grade.

5 comments:

Rachel said...

oh erin! i feel the same exact way! we've graduated, made it to denver and here we are working - but everything else is so up in the air! ahhh! with our career paths - there's a lot more empty spaces than answers for sure! and that includes all life decisions.

Jason Thomas said...

We have had similar thoughts lately. Its California now but a year from now we could be anywhere...Just think how boring life would be if there was a 23rd grade. We would have little mystery to look forward too.

kaylie jean. said...

I'm not out of school yet, but I can absolutely understand that emotion. Life is so exciting isn't it? I love reading your updates!

Brett and Sydnie said...

Its so true. And then you decide whats next (ex: MBA school) and its still not set in stone (ex: we have a 33% chance of living in either New York, Virginia, or Provo in 3 short months). I think our lives will be like this until we all have like 2-3 kids, a home we bought, and set careers. Its scary, but really fun.

Unknown said...

Dear Erin,

You should submit this to KNPR national public broadcasting radio. It is well written and just the kind of thing that makes the prudent among us muse upon life's track.

Me? Next year in August, I am going into the 65th grade, now that IS scary. Captain