1)Sitting in Italy in a cozy village in the mountains with a glass of wine and a good book and holding the hand of the love of my life.
2)Walking through the moonlit squares of Savannah with not a care in the world other than enjoying the moment.
3)Relaxing on the deck of a ship traveling around the world seeing all the beautiful, awe-inspiring places I've only read about.
Notice a theme here? All your dreams are about travelling. Let's brainstorm about how this might be possible in the future:
- maybe someday you could take a job on a cruise ship? Or join the Peace Corps? Or work for an airline?
- maybe you could fulfill some of your travel dreams by driving around the U.S. couch-surfing with friends?
- maybe someday you could take a job in another part of the U.S.?
- maybe you could start a change jar to save for your dream vacation ($100 a year for 10 years would get you an off-season plane ticket to London or some such destination, and maybe you could stay with online friends or swap houses?)
- maybe you could have some of the international experience you desire by joining couchsurfing.org - international traveler's come crash with you for a day or two, and you would get the fun of experiencing international visitors while at the same time making friends who may host you some day - check it out!
Also - you talk about your regrets about choices you made - but you are way younger than me, it is not too late to pursue your dreams. I had classmates in medical school who were older than you. You're smarter and more capable than you were when you were twenty, if you want to learn a new skill today you probably can. Don't limit yourself.
(Incidentally - funny story about making those poster board collages with pictures of the things you want to attract into your life: My friend did this years ago. He was a young man, married (not so happily) with two small kids, teaching and living in a rather barren part of California's central valley. On his board, he had pics of living by the ocean in a lush green environment. So then his house burns down, he loses everything he owns, his wife dumps him, and he ends up moving to Mendocino and starting a restaurant with his brother. He now lives in that picturesque little beach community with a view of the ocean from his bedroom window - everything he wanted on his posterboard, but that wasn't exactly the way he intended to get it, lol!)
