Dear Cruzzie:

You are welcome. Maybe one day you will continue school, but not now and not anytime soon. It is time for you to figure out your life, and that is quite exciting. Figure out what of societal conventions make sense to you and what does not. Some make sense, it is not all-or-nothing. You figure it out, you decide.

A lot of it doesn’t make sense to me, a whole lot. Lots of people pay a heavy price (you have) for blindly following societal conventions. There are people who work hard for decades, distressed and discontent,  for the purpose of retiring one day and then living a calm and content life, only they get there, to the conventionally determined age of retirement, and the conventionally agreed upon financial situation fitting retirement and …. it turns out to be a disaster: being distressed for decades is not something they can turn off because of the conventional age and financial retirement package and the payoff of a lifetime of distress never happens.

Van traveling sounds good to me, the adventure of it, going places you will not otherwise go to, meeting people you will not otherwise meet, having your own schedule. Whatever you choose to do, pay attention to your experiences, learn, relearn, take your time doing it.

anita