Our experiences might be different, but I believe it all starts in kindergarten during our graduations before we step into the elementary school environment, where each one of us walks up to stage and say what they want to be when they grow up. And then by the moment we proceed to high school after a few years, we are handed an invisible checklist of things that we should have achieved before a certain age. It is a rigid, strict, unforgiving timeline: juggle high school work with studying for college’s first semester calculus and biology exam, juggle high school work with working a part time job so you can have a car by your first year of college, secure an internship in your first semester of college, graduate on time, land the dream job immediately, climb the ladder swiftly, and secure stability before the clock strikes 25. We look at LinkedIn announcements and Instagram milestones, convinced that everyone else received a functional map while we are left wandering the forest wi...