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• Monday, January 12, 2009 03:24 PM

  No one can ever win in this column

  I see a lot of people bashing a young man who didn't even write the letter for going on vacation and deciding to change his mind about med school and go to China to teach english.

  How immature, how pretensious, how horrible he went to Burning Man and got the kooky idea to see a little bit more of planet earth before buckling down for 8 more years of intense study and rigorous testing to land a demanding career!

  Then he came back and decided okay, I think I'll go to med school all before he's 25 and he doesn't have any children or a wife! How immature of him, how reckless!

  I have seen numerous other columns where some young person is not sure about settling down with a relationship or grad school or a career and the advice is travel, see the world, you're young, there is plenty of time for school and marriage and kids!

  Wow what a jerk for not just going on to med school, becoming a doctor and finding a wife and maybe having some kids and going to China or wherever on vacation when his practice or hospital schedule allows it. I bet experiencing another culture in two or three weeks is just like living there and interacting with the locals for a year. Some of you sound just like the LW who was pissed he changed his mind too. Sure he did some other jerky things to her, but dammit, he wasn't married he didn't cheat and he followed through on a plan that helped him in some personal way.

  Isn't that what the young years are for, to explore life and see and do things that you might not be able to after you lock yourself into a career and partnerships and maybe kids?

  Or is the problem just that this hippy dippy arty farty festival is where he changed his mind about how soon he'd enter the race for an upper class important career?

  —Lestat1 Read Lestat1's other letters
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