Something different to talk about, for once

You know, I've been thinking.  Lots of the people I talk to ask me, "so what do you want to do after this?" I'm sure that more than one person is wandering, so I figured I'd talk about that for a little bit.  A lot (and I mean a LOT) of people these days have these concepts, fundaments, of what people should do.  It usually goes highschool-college-job-house, or for the more "successful" people, "work your ass off in highschool to get the best grades possible in order to get into a nice school, probably for dental, med school, or law.  Study your young adult life away (8 years for a doctorate) and build up an enormous mortgage in doing so, and then be forced to get a job right off the bat in order to pay off the ENORMOUS sum of loans you've accumulated.  Then, by the time you're 30, you'll finally be free, have a big house, lots of money, and have a job doing what you only wanted to do for money in the first place!" 
      Why do people think this is such a good idea?  And with all that studying and working and paying and worrying, when do you get to really live?  So after I get back home in august, I'll start school.  Let me start by thanking my parents for being kind enough to have offered to pay for my tuition, as well as that of my other siblings as well.  Honestly, if they wouldn't have done that, then I probably wouldn't go to school at all, or at least not in the U.S.  Anyway, as I was doing some internet surfing this morning, I had a breakthrough- I found out what it is that I really want to do after 4 years of school!  Now, I'm well aware how subject things are to change, and how futile our attempts are to think that we know what will happen in the future, but as of right now, this is what I really want to do.  And the answer is......... Continue wandering!  Travel the world, see whatever I want to see, and do what I like (usually involving hitchhiking, dancing, being in the sun, etc.) 
      No career, you ask?  Well not yet, anyway.  Why the hell would I do something like that, if it involves working some bullshit job and not positively loving life?  Now sure, there will be time for that later, and that's the point!  I can do it later, like, whenever I want to.  But as for right now (or, the foreseeable future) the world is just too big and wonderful for me to think about staying in one place!  And whether it's translating, being a musician, tour guide, WHATEVER.  I don't care, and I feel like I'm far too young to worry about that.  So that's my two cents.