My Answer to your Annoying Question..WHY?

Dropping everything and going to a foreign country may have been the best thing I have done. If it wasn’t for all the annoying questions people fire at me. “Why?” It drives me nuts. Three simple letters, yet it could possibly be the most difficult question in life. “Why?”

Maybe because I don’t know why. Or maybe because I’m running away from reality. Or maybe I went temporarily insane and jumped on a plane fueled by adrenaline. Or maybe I’m just not content with a “real-world” job and settling down and get neck-high in debt with a mortgage….

So to tell you all, Why did I come to Korea of all places? I guess it was just fate. Luck, accidental, God’s will…however you wish to put it. I didn’t intentionally choose Korea. All that mattered was, I wanted to be somewhere. Away from what the world that I knew. I wanted to see new things. Try different things. I wanted to step out of my comfort zone. I wanted to live my life in a whole new way. And I guess that’s exactly what I’m doing here.

However, there are many people who don’t seem to understand. They tell me, ”You’re just wasting your time. You’re going to come back a year later and be a year behind everyone. You’re going to have to start from scratch again.”

Maybe they’re right. But what if that’s not what I’m after in life? I muse to myself, why would I want to get a house, get a boring 9-5 job now, when I have the rest of my life to be doing exactly just that? Hey, if I achieve everything that society deems “successful” all before I’m 30….what the hell am I supposed to do with the remainder of my life? I guess I’d be good to die by 31?! I’m truly enjoying myself right now, and I don’t see the need to burden myself with mortgages and a fat bum from sitting too much. I’m old enough to be independent, yet I’m still young enough to not have to deal with committments and responsibilities.

So why am I here? I guess I’m just enjoying my life (the way we should!)