It was recently pointed out by someone very dear to me that I am adept at compartmentalizing my feelings/reactions. While I feel like this has it’s advantages, I’d actually like to be more up front/direct about my feelings with people.
I want to read more for pleasure. Tentative goal: read all of the books for my book club, as well as at least 2 non-academic books a month.
Exercise more! Especially now that I live so close to one of the campus gyms.
Start paying off my student loans. (This is one of the things I loathe about becoming a real adult.)
Keep my grades up. Optimistic goal: maintaining my current 4.0
Cook/bake more! Living with family means that I rarely actually need to make my own food, but I’d like to experiment with a new recipe roughly once a week.
Figuring out what I want in a job/love/life. I feel like I spent my high school years developing a list of favorites (books, movies, people, etc). And I spent my undergrad years developing my own opinions and ideas about things (politics, religion, what makes someone awesome vs. an asshole). And while I definitely want to continue discovering new favorites and shaping my ideas about things, I feel like my 20s are becoming the time to get deep. Faced with actually entering the real world in a about a year and half, it is definitely time for me to consider what exactly it is that I want out of life. I think a lot of people my age jump in and take the next steps because they know it’s what they’re supposed to do; however, it is very apparent that many of them take said steps without thinking carefully about the specifics. I think people often just assume that a certain path/decision/person will make them happy, without actually stopping to consider if that’s really true. And while I think part of life is embracing mistakes and change, I also think that while I have the luxury I should at least be trying to figure out what will and won’t work for me. We’ll see how that goes…
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