Just over 5 Months to Go

Time is flying guys seriously, I've got just over 5 months before I head back to Canada and try to organize my life. This trip has been such a wonderful experience but it's also kind of delayed the inevitable, figuring out a life plan. I know I talk about this all the time but it's something that I can't help but be constantly thinking about. What am I going to do with my life?

It's a question I think we all ask ourselves but even more so as we start to get older and don't have an actual "career" in place. I wouldn't say I'm super concerned about staying at the same job for the rest of my life but at least deciding a direction would be nice. I've always been so bombarded with ideas that they end up muffled and not coming to fruition so I really need to focus and figure out an actual plan because I know whatever I decide to do if I give it 100% I'll most definitely succeed. It's a matter of actually knowing what the heck to do.

Obviously I miss cooking and being in a restaurant so that's definitely an option. Owning my own restaurant would be great but I fear I wouldn't want to commit to something like that that essentially ties me down to one thing for as long as I stay open. In that case, I also feel like focusing 100% on my blog, writing recipes, and getting more involved in food photography / cooking videos. I purchased a good DSLR camera that's currently collecting dust back home so I know I want to get into that and learn the ropes. I love writing and testing recipes, it's got to be one of my favourite things to do and that's also why the restaurant turns me off because you kind of get stuck making the same thing all the time, it was stifling me.

The animal sanctuary is also a serious contender. If I buckled down and saved for an entire year, I could put a down payment on a farm / property and start adopting / rescuing animals which is something I'm wholly committed to the idea of. Again, it would require me to focus all of my attention and efforts into it and I worry that I would lose focus on other important things however rewarding it would be. I would initially still have to work because I couldn't keep the property running without a continuous stream of money right? 

Where to go from here? My two main ideas are growing the blog and the animal sanctuary so I need to really put some effort into figuring out what I want from each of these experiences and if they can also coexist which would be ideally, quite perfect.

Why is life so hard guys? :P

HAPPY VEG