Dear Rocco:

“Recently, I have come to the decision that I am ready to leave my hometown and that I am ready to go out and see the world. I am very excited by this, because it is something that feels very right. However.. I am going to be moving away from many of the day-to-day connections I value.. where to put this grief”-

– you decided to leave your hometown and travel the world; you made a decision, you didn’t make a plan yet as to how to practically put this decision into action. And yet, you fast forwarded your thoughts and feelings to match an action you didn’t plan yet.

You are “ready to go out and see the world”, but the world is not ready for you. There are travel restrictions and nobody knows how long these will last, when these restrictions will be lifted and then reinstated; where there will be spikes of the pandemic and new restrictions established. Because a vaccine being readily available to the world is estimated to be in two years, 2022, I would postpone the idea of traveling the world to 2022.

Regarding going to graduate school, when schools open you will be able to actually go to school vs. online. Are you thinking of going to graduate school before or after traveling?

anita