I confess that I’m going through a bit of a quarter life crisis at the moment. My undergraduate life will officially be over in a few
weeks time when I don my $125 regalia and walk down the hallowed turf of the
Royal Exhibition Building to receive my shiny graduation certificate.
So what now?
Should I try my luck at job-hunting? Maybe I should try and
secure a full-time internship? Or perhaps I’m better off doing further studies?
Before, the Future was something distant, something that I
could delay and think about later. But the truth is that the Future slowly creeps up on you until, suddenly, it melds into your Present.
We all go through periods of doubt and uncertainty when we wonder just what our Future would become. Fear of the Future is primarily
a fear of failure. We are afraid that years of education and training and hard
work will amount to nothing. We are afraid that our lives will be
meaningless. We are afraid of being left behind while our friends move on with their lives.
