Early onset quarter-life crisis

I have been absent from Letting Go of the Handle, but I have been called back. A niggling feeling is telling me to write. I believe it's very important to follow your gut, so I hereby resolve to post 2 - 3 times a week and to work on my book a minimum of 2 hours a week.

I've been feeling a need to express myself, to be a little bigger than this life that I'm living. That sounds terribly pretentious, but I can't think how else to put it. I'm feeling antsy and confined by the 9-5 so I've poised myself at a crossroads as to what I want to do next. I've got a list of things I know I don't want, but decisions concerning my career, further education, ultimate location etc, cannot be made by process of elimination alone. I need to come to some concrete conclusions about what I do want to do with myself. 

I won't let life happen to me. I intend to proactively influence the course my life takes. Though I believe fate, coincidence, destiny - whatever you choose to call it -  has a role in how and why things happen, I think that without some action on my own part, these forces can't express themselves to their fullest potential. Things happen for a reason, yes, but in order for "things" to happen, I've got to do something first!

This is some heavy soul searching to do, so I intend to work it out by writing it out. Stick with me on this little journey of mine - I promise to make it fun (though this initial post might not be the best example of that, lol). Any thoughts, suggestions, expressions of moral support etc are always welcome.