On 3 Sep, 12:53, flyI4 wrote:
As a 20 year old I've been faced with a very hard decision.

I thought quite a lot about that. You are lucky to have a choice. I
still don´t know what I would choose. I suppose the sensible thing
would be to work hard, and hopefully, as a result, eventually get
into a position to be able to do the things you want. On the other
hand, nobody can take away wonderful memories. If you are in a
position to do what you want, then it is probably best to simply do
it. Often, the main problem is knowing what you want. Getting what you
think you want is invariably an anticlimax.

Were I, or had I ever been, in such an enviable position, at any age,
then I would probably have tried to strike a balance with what I loved
to do, and what I was bound to do. Unfortunately, many things are
dictated by circumstance.

Probably the main thing is to avoid doing things you might regret.
Unfortunately, it is not always clear what one might regret, before
one actually does it.

A thousand beautiful women are more or less useless, except as
pleasant decoration. One can be considerably more than sufficient, but
it has to be the right one. There are only really two major things
which govern people´s lives, their will, and their wherewithal.One is
not a lot of use without the other, although one may compensate to
some extent for the lack of either. The world may be your oyster, but
you are still obliged to open a lot of ugly, hard, maybe even
dangerous, shells, and chew a lot of sandy, gristly, and largely
tasteless shellfish, before you find a pearl.

There are also many things which you can only fully enjoy when you are
young and carefree.

Not advice, merely theoretical musings...............

TL
MC