Motivational Monday – There’s not one route through life.

Motivational Monday - there's not one route through life

Hello everyone, you might have seen me around here or on r/depression before. I’m a new mod here, I’ve been helping on “depressed” subreddits since the beginning of the summer.

So, as the title suggested, I figured I would post something that was important for me in my life. The realization that there is not one route through life.

Originally, I was doing a vocational degree, and I wanted to become a laborant. Later on, I originally wanted to study biochemistry.

However, for me, this went wrong. At an internship, my Autism held me back… and I was consequently sort of kicked out of college(Tl;Dr version: I did got a degree, but at a low level so I had nearly zero chance of getting any sort of job). Afterwards, my school told me that the best thing to do was to find a job, to help deal with my Autism. This advice was practically a joke because 1) it was in the deepest depths of the recession for my country back then and 2) what company would want you with a backstory like that?

At around the same time I realized that I wanted to study physics, a completely different field. However, my educational degrees were not good enough. But my mother heard something interesting; some sort of extra high school thingy that allowed you to “up” your education. I took it, and now, three years after the problem on my internship started, I’m doing an internship for my major in physics. Not just that, but I’m doing it overseas… at a big name university as well, and on a very well-known international project as well. In particle physics. And it’s going pretty well right now. All because my mother heard about this “extra high school thingy”.

So… long story short, sometimes life can get weird and difficult, but still work out. There are a lot of routes in life, and lots of possibilities you’ve never heard of.

Did you have any similar “weird route” through life? Please do share!