7. You don’t need to have a timeline
你沒有必要制定時間表
When you’re young, you get so used to people asking what you’re majoring in or what you want to be when you grow up that you start planning out your whole life. It seems more stable to think “I should be married by the time I’m 25 so I can have kids before I’m 30,” than to fly by the seat of your pants.
年輕的時候,你很習慣別人詢問你的專業,或者你長大后想做什么。然后你開始規劃你的人生。“我應該25歲時結婚這樣我在30歲之前就可以生孩子了”之類的想法似乎比隨遇而安更穩定。
But the truth is, those timelines rarely work out. If they do, it might just because you feel pressured to stick to them. What if you’re dating the wrong person when you’re 25, but still feel like you have to get married to meet your goal? Scrap any timeline you have in mind. Life is going to throw you curveballs whether you have plans or not, so see who you meet, who you fall in love with, and go with the flow.
而事實是,這些時間表基本沒用。如果有用,也許只是因為你感覺到了壓力而刻意遵循。如果你在25歲時愛上了一個錯的人,卻依然覺得為了實現目標你必須結 婚,會怎樣?丟掉你腦中的所有時間表。不論你有沒有計劃,生活都會照常進行。所以等著瞧,看你會遇見誰,愛上誰,順其自然。