Ambitions

I've been thinking a lot recently about goals and ambitions, which I think has much to do with my relatively recent discovery of A beautiful mess and Elsie's endless inspirations list making of goals and dreams. I always knew very certainly that I would go to university; to study what, I wasn't sure but there was always a definite knowledge that I would attain a degree, beyond that though I wasn't sure, and with said degree drawing to a close it's time I started looking forward to the future.

At the age of 18, fresh out of college I took a gap year, which turned into two, in which I worked and travelled. Travelling was another thing I knew very definitely I wanted to do. So for two years, I worked a while and then when I had enough money saved I scooted off around Europe. Most of this travelling I did alone. People have always been amazed at me, a not particularly outgoing person just going off to a foreign country alone but to me it was something I never thought twice about. I knew that I wanted to travel and I knew that if I waited around for someone to come with me I would never go.

As it was I had the time of my life, I met amazing people and saw wonderful places, I look back so fondly on that time. I was completely free and so very happy. I was completely and utterly living my dream, and I learned so much about who I was as a person and what I wanted out of life.

Three years later and my priorities are somewhat altered but I think it is once again time to sit down and figure out what I want, what I really want. To figure out what are my goals and ambitions and dreams. I think it's vitally important to have ambitions, they are what keep you going through dreary days in a less than ideal job or when times are financially difficult, that is when it's most important to keep hold of your dreams.

So my task this weekend is to sit down and come up with a list of 'things to acheive before 30' Graduating is both exciting and uncertain but I am determined to turn that uncertainty into opportunity, to acheive in my life the things that are most important to me.

{All photos taken from my European adventures}