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**Marcus Nappy** · 03-06-2010, 05:14 PM

Guy/Girls I want to go on another trip right now!!! I don't want to wait another 2 years (till I graduate for university) before I go on another one...

I'm not too sure what I should do...

I have only been back home for 2 months after being away in Europe for the last 6 months and all I think about is going back out there.

Two things are stopping me from going tomorrow: school and $$.

I am 1/2 well more then 1/2, more like 9/10 tempted to extend my break from university pretty much indefinitely. Now I don't look at it as dropping out of university, more like just taking a break.

To do this I would have to go back to my old job for 3-4 months and make enough money for another extended trip (6-12 months). So I'm looking at probably a year and a half, allowing a month here and there for either longer trip or working a bit longer.

Ok so there's the money issue how it's laid out in my head, the next is school. So I just turned 26 this month, YAY I'm older!! I just left the work force 2 years ago to start my university degree. So that puts me right in the middle of school and wanting to extend my break even longer:S I know I shouldn't let society pressure me but I feel as though I'm already "behind" in the whole "game of life" shit. All of my friends are done university, on their second degrees, buying houses, getting married (some even getting divorced) and having children. Here I am, I rent, don't have a girlfriend, and can't even focus on my 2nd year in my 1st degree. (Sorry for the long post, I have a lot of things on my mind and just letting them out. That's if anyone even reads this this far sorry).

So thats pretty much everything now: stay in school for another 2 years, hating it and not focusing on it with my mind overseas. Or going back to work for a bit and then hitting the road again....

What do you all think??!?!!?!??!!?!