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3 Career Mistakes That Cost Me 3 Years
Sometimes we adjust our dreams to fit the road, instead of adjusting the road to fit our dreams.
Proms are ridiculous in Bulgaria, and mine was too.
Thousands of dollars are spent on dresses and suits and hair and makeup. Most people hire their own professional photographer. Families invite grandparents and uncles and distant cousins to their homes; then they send off their proud graduate to school with an expensive car that’s hired or borrowed from a friend.
In front of the school, former classmates group and regroup for more photos, compare budgets and clothing and the aforementioned cars; and plan the night ahead.
Then they get in the cars again and screaming and counting to 12 (for the 12 years they’ve been in school), they head out to a restaurant, where there’s dinner and live entertainment. Most often, after the restaurant, hotel rooms are booked for the young adults where they can continue the party, smoking and drinking till morning, and where relationships start or end, and friends swear in ever-lasting bonds. The sun creeps slowly up the sky and tucks them all in, and so they sleep through their first morning as grown-ups, confident that, except for the pretty dress, that’s pretty much how life is going to be.