I feel like the access more of us have to a widening range of experiences is completely unprecedented*. Not only can we travel abroad for a year or return to grad school, but we fully expect that we can simultaneously manage a blog, start a small photography business, volunteer at a community farm (or at least learn how to compost properly!), and become a yoga instructor.
We were raised to be well-rounded and from that same mold, opportunists. The world has become our oyster is so many ways and we’d like to experience all it has to offer. If two roads diverged in a yellow wood, we would hike them both and then set out to blaze a newer, better trail altogether.
Furthermore, modern-day gadgets plus social networking and daily deal sites such as LivingSocial, Groupon or Jetsetter have made it even easier to fill our time with seemingly enriching activities (Explore Merlot & Monet!, Unlimited Skydiving in West VA!, D.C. Monumental Photography Tour!). Not only that, but there’s the additional pressure created when, in your “down time” cruising Facebook, you see how busy and accomplished everyone else is! The question now is, if a tree falls in a forest and no one posts about it on their Wall, did it really happen?
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