Adventure's Out There

You know being a big girl isn't all that great. I use to laugh when my parents told me I needed to enjoy the moment. Laughed even harder when that song "you're gonna miss this" came out and I got the awkward told-you-so glare from my mother. Yeah, not so funny now on this end of it. Granted I'm not old...I'm only 23 years old. That only what almost a quarter of my life.There is SO MUCH in life to do and people tell you that you have your whole life to do it. Which is really not true. I realized in college there was so much I wanted to do. I wanted to travel to Europe, so one Christmas break I saved up the money and was off to 5 countries. I told myself I wanted to work for Disney World, second to last semester in college I had 5 months of working my dream job. I constantly had the next thing that I wanted to do, that I was gonna work for till I got it. Great way to live, and I thought to myself "this is how I want to live my life" I want to be able to say to myself "Yep, that's next" and then DO IT. But you see now I'm out of college. I'm grateful I graduated from an amazing school (Texas A&M, whoop) I'm grateful that I had a job offer before I graduated, and I'm super grateful that I'm good at my job, I don't hate it, and the people are work with are great. BUT, and a BIG but, how is it possible that I am 23 years old and already stuck in something that is a routine of a 55 year old woman. I get up, and get to work and sit at a desk all day while my eye site deteriorates from looking at a screen all day long. So please tell me with my 8-5 job, 5 days a week, with pretty much no vacation time WHEN am I suppose to live my life? When am I suppose to do these things my parents have been telling me to and to slow down to enjoy? My personality is to set a goal, get to it, and enjoy every second of the process. But now I'm stuck, I want to do everything in the world. So there's my next mission. I want to explore EVERYTHING life has to offer.

Is that too much to ask for?