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When You Find Yourself At A Crossroads

Do you continue straight onto the planned path? Or do you switch course and choose the road to the right or left?

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There you are, going about your life as if it were just a normal day, then a thought crosses your mind...

Am I doing the right thing with my life?

You ponder for a minute or two waiting on an answer to form, but there is no answer. Instead, there are just more questions...

Am I at the right school? Am I pursuing the right career? Am I happy? What if I made a wrong choice?

The questions zoom around in your head, gaining speed and volume as they repeat. Your brain tries to feedback logical answers to each one, but nothing seems to be working. Your heart starts to race, your stomach turns upside down and all you can focus on now is the questions.

So here you are, on a normal day, now contemplating every decision you ever made.

This is a time in life that some people may define as a crossroad. Perhaps the road ahead of you is split into three separate ways, but each one is no better or worse than the other. Do you continue straight onto the planned path? Or do you switch course and choose the road to the right or left?

People you talk to all tell you their own opinions, but each piece of feedback ultimately boils back down to the same thing -- follow your gut.

Somehow our own instinct knows which choice will be the better one for us, but we don't always listen. Our brains are filled with too many questions and what ifs to actually follow our initial choice.

We shop around for colleges, homes, jobs, significant others, pets and even things as simple as clothes. Plagued with the FOMO (fear of missing out) syndrome, we must give ourselves as many options as possible. So even if the first college we visit feels like home or the first dress we try on makes us cry happy tears, our brains constantly nag us to look for other options.

So here I am, on what seemed to be a normal day, until these questions started swirling around in my brain. I have found myself at a crossroad.

Does my school offer me what I need? Am I following the right career path? Would other places offer me better programs?

I love the school I'm at, everything seems perfect to me. Except for the major factor of I'm not happy with the program for my current major of Psychology and I'm not too thrilled with any other options the school has to offer me.

I'm so torn inside, but I think I have found a compromise. It may not be the final answer and it may not be the perfect fix, I'll just have to wait and see.

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