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sometimes we do things without fully thinking them through..
The lead-in: I was dating a girl who was not smart, working a job that I knew was not my thing (Meatcutter, graveyard shift) and living in a $200/month run-down apartment building in a town where you go nowhere, ever..
So, one night I went to sleep as ever, and had a dream of my future that terrified me.. It was dull boring and I was pushing a shopping cart full of goblin children through the crappy town mall with the girl now fat waddling in front of it.. In the dream I was not me, I was watching me and my eyes looked dead, no life..
I woke, up and within thirty minutes I had called the navy office and scheduled my enlistment, called my job and gave two week notice, called my landlord and said it was my last month, called my parents and told them I was joining the navy and needed a place to stay until I went away and broke up with my girlfriend.
I went away to this place with nothing but the clothes on my back, and then they took those and made me mail them home. It was great, I totally rebooted my life.. But, in retrospect I could have just moved back home and gone to college instead of wasting a year in the Navy before being discharged for failure to adapt (that is another sticky for another time)..
Moral is.. think before you leap.. though, in this instance I needed to do all this stuff while I still had the ‘fear’ in me..