What is a “normal” life experience you feel like you missed out on?

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I was fortunate enough to be able to go to college, but growing up, I was led to believe that college life would be very different from what I personally experienced. There were certain expectations I had mainly due to the way things were portrayed in movies and television, but also because of personal experiences through seeing how my older brother and his peers were living.

Well, those expectations went unfulfilled.

For myself, college was a different experience than what I would have originally thought to be “normal” and that’s what I feel like I missed out on.

I didn’t move out of my parents house, and ended up living at home on the farm for the entire duration of my time in college, which I fully acknowledge as an overall good thing. However, I never got the experience of moving to a different city and living in a dorm with people my own age. There weren’t any crazy parties, and I didn’t meet a LOT of people I could have been friends with, nor meet any potential romantic partners. (That also means I basically stayed out of trouble.) I didn’t have to find a job and move into an apartment to make it through the latter half of that time at college. To be fair, I did work the entire time, from beginning to end, because I had to drive a lot just to attend classes, I just didn’t need to work to pay rent and bills in the traditional sense.

Honestly, though, with all that being said, I’m not really sad about how it all turned out. After all , because of those choices and differences, things worked out well enough. I just sometimes look back and wonder how my life would have been different, how I would be different, had I attended a more “standard” university and gone through the stereotypical college experience.