After having a long conversation with my dad in our hot tub a few nights ago, I started to reevaluate everything that I'm doing with my life right now. I'm going to school for Visual Communications, and I'm planning on transferring to a university and continuing towards a Bachelor's degree.
However, I'm already having trouble finding time to study Japanese while attending school. I'm not going to become fluent on my own. If I would have, I'd almost be there already, and the only other option would be to drop everything and study Japanese full-time. This wouldn't be for credit, and I'd probably be considered a bum by my peers.
My endgame is being able to move to Japan after finishing school. So I have the fast path: continue down my current field and get to Japan in a few years. Or... I could change my field of study to Japanese and Business, which was actually my plan in high school... If I did this, school wouldn't get in the way of studying Japanese because I would be doing school work by doing my passion. It would also make my study abroad trip more worthwhile when that finally happens.
On the other side, if I choose to major in Japanese, it would require me to move, possibly to Arizona or somewhere else outside of the midwest. I'm looking at it as my first test. If I can handle being away from my family for a semester at a time, then studying abroad and even moving overseas won't be a problem.
Either way, I have a lot of decisions to make, and I don't want to just settle for the field that I'm in right now. I'm too young to say "Oh, I wasted enough time already, so I'll just keep doing what I'm doing and not be happy with it." I need to do what makes me happy, and learning about Japan and its language has been my passion for years.
Until next time,
Adam
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