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Took this photo near my house when I went back country skiing 3 years ago. It's been my current wallpaper on my laptop ever since.
After I graduated high school I moved out across the country to be closer to family in the Rocky Mountains, in one of the most gorgeous places in the US. Pristine wilderness all around me, tainted only by tourists in the summer and skiers in the winter. It's precious to me and I'm likely to inherit the land that my family owns when they pass away. Now I'm 22, going into my senior year of college. I've done a lot of really cool things in my life, things that most people would never get the chance to do. I'm in good athletic shape and constantly working out, and I think I have a bright future if I play my cards right.
But right now I just don't know what to do with my life. I'm sick of the college lifestyle. I'm in a 2 year relationship with a girl who I'm not sure I even love. Just moved out of a house full of drug addicted college dropouts into a house full of obnoxious frat guys. I play on a shitty club sports team that has no idea how to play the said sport. My family expects me to make tons of money when I get out of college but I dread the idea of landing some desk job and becoming a wage slave. I want to do more, I can't even rationalize the idea of just settling down in a year. I feel that it is a waste of life than I don't want to be doomed to.
I want to join the Navy and land a spot as a SEAL. Even if I get the rate, my family is going to freak out. Not that that really matters though. I've thought about this for years and only truly settled on it when I met and started working for my mothers neighbor, a retired SEAL. He's a hard ass and I genuinely enjoy it, but he keeps pushing me to go to the Naval Academy and become an officer. I just don't want to do that. I've had leadership positions in the past where I have done very well, but an officer is something I just don't see myself as. I feel like I'm stuck.