Where I am right now, at this age was NOT the plan. Here is how it was supposed to work out: graduate high school, meet a boy, date that boy, finish college and get my teaching license, get engaged, get a teaching job, get married, buy/build a house, have kids...all by the age of 25. That was the plan I created for myself when I was a senior in high school. That was the life I wanted, the perfect life. I wanted a white picket fence, the american dream. I had everything planned out in my head, and I was going to make those things happen, no matter what.
But guess what....
The things I had planned for my life where not the ultimate plan, at least not how I had them planned. This is what really happened:
May 2007 I graduated high school
September 2007 I started dating a boy
May 2010 graduated with an associates degree (so far so good)
here is where it took a turn.....
Aug 2010 I went to one week of college to get my bachelor's degree and then I dropped out.
I worked while I tried to figure out what I wanted out of life.
Dec 2010 boy proposes
Aug 2011 I moved to St. Louis and went to St. Louis Christian College.
January 2012 moved back home
February 2012 married the boy
March 2012 dropped out of school....again.
We worked part time jobs, moved 4 times in two years, all in apartments/trailers/with my parents.
January 2014 moved to Edwardsville.
Aug 2014 went back to school.
May 7, 2016 I will graduate with my teaching degree!
I am 27 years old and have moved 6 times in four years, never had my own home, that we own. Struggled over and over and over again. I am 27 years old and have only accomplished 2 things on my list of things to have done by 25 (getting married and getting my degree.) And here is the crazy part I am 100% happy with the life I have lived.
Nothing has worked how I planned it to work and I do not regret a single thing! I am so confident in everything Matt and I have done and so proud that we have done it mostly on our own and married. I went through a tough program while working, paying bills, and being a wife. It has been hard, so hard, and stressful but "it's not supposed to be easy, if it were easy everyone would do it."-A League of Their Own. I did it all, how and when I was supposed to, not when I THOUGHT I was supposed to.
So here is why I wrote this. If you find yourself in a place you never expected, good for you. Life is too short to have it all planned out. Surprises are good, the unexpected is good, a crazy life is good. As long as you work hard, chase your dreams, and treat others with kindness you will have a happy and fulfilled life, and NEVER let anyone make you think differently.
