Hello everyone, my name is Taylor and I suppose this is what you would call my introduction piece to steemit. I am a 20 year old female living in a small town in Ontario, Canada who works part time and has no idea what she wants to do with her life. Now, although that may sound like an extremely vague profile description on a desperate dating site, it's not. Please, if you're already bored with this article, don't hesitate to leave. I am seriously contemplating doing the same. The truth is, at this point in my life, I have no clue what I even WANT to do with my future. I mean how can any 20 year old be certain about their future when they aren't even certain of who they are as a person yet? True, I could have done what many 18 year old graduates of high school do, by spending 3 years "victory lapping" grade twelve, smoking pot every night and pumping gas during the day while I wait for some kind of career deciding epiphany. (Which, now that I think about it, doesn't sound all that bad.)
In all seriousness though, I have nothing against secular education and I do plan on utilizing this provision at some point in my life. I don't however, think it is wise to invest MY financial resources along with my parent's, into the education of a career I'm not even sure I'll want once I graduate. I mean, do I really want to end up with a job where I'm placed in a "beehive-like" structure with four feet of moving space and the air comprising of 15% nitrogen, 8% oxygen, and 77% of every odour the human body could possibly excrete.....X20? That's enough motivation for anyone to shove their finger into the nearest pencil sharpener until quitting time. What I have concluded then, is that until I do receive my "employment epiphany", I will truly experience life. Taste it, feel it, live it by means of travel.
I understand many people may view this as a complete waste of time and that my young, intellectual resources would be better spent on a career that grants me a well paying job, a house and a car along with a spacious corporate office while settling with a mere "poster" of Bora Bora instead of the real deal. And hey, if that works for you, great! I wish you all the best. All I'm saying is you can't walk through a poster (which would be really cool if you could, but they tell me 2 dimensional objects just don't work like that). So for starters I've decided to move to Ecuador. I know, I know, it's a small first step considering I don't speak Spanish and I'm currently living in Canada and all but I feel it's important to start somewhere. To be perfectly honest, I didn't just spin a globe one day and had my finger land on this South American country with that as a basis for my decision.
My father and his family moved to Ecuador in the 70's when he was 12 years old and they lived there for 5 years. All my life I've heard of amazing stories and experiences he had while growing up there and how bitter he is now that he lives in a country that has what feels like 10 months of winter and works a steady 9-5 job just to pay for a house that he can't afford. So I thought that before I prematurely get to that point in my life, where I become a cranky, 59 year old, balding male with all hope and desire to enjoy life completely drained from my soul, I might as well give it a shot. Therefore, as of September, I will be moving to Ecuador from anywhere between 6-9 months. Hopefully I can begin my new adventure down there and perhaps, not having a clue what to do with my life on the other side of the equator, I will find an answer I wasn't expecting.
As you could probably discern by now, I am by no means a professional writer. I ask that you please forgive my amateur writing style and excessive use of commas, parentheses and sarcasm. I am simply hoping to produce interesting articles about my everyday life/adventures while living in South America or anything else that pops into my head I feel passionately about. I understand Steemit entry's should be about things you know but I don't know a whole heck of a lot, so please be patient with me. I hope what I do contribute here will be of interest to you as readers and that you will continue to follow me on this crazy, uncertain journey of mine. I believe life is about living, not merely existing. As a result, instead of procrastinating about when to start living my life, I'm finally going to go ahead and do it...tomorrow...maybe.
Stay tuned readers...
-Taylor