The universe tends to unfold itself as it should...

I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately. Life is a crazy thing. I don't think I have been keeping up with it as well as I used to. I don't think it has to do with apathy or exhaustion or anything dramatic like that--just my inability to keep up. I've witnessed my friends grow up and turn into adults at alarming rates. But somehow, I still feel like I'm getting left behind. Maybe that's not the right way to put it: I'm just on a different road. It seems like most people I know are all driving their sedans on the same straight stretch of road. Their cars are different colors or makes, but they're all on the same road, cruising along at approximately the same speed. And I feel like I'm in an SUV, off-roading the unfamiliar. I'm not in any hurry to get anywhere. I think my main goal at this point is to make sure I live with no regrets. (Not that I believe in regrets to begin with. I actually think they're a waste of time.) I just want to do the off-roading before I get back on the main stretch of highway, in my black sedan, like everyone else. I have a lot more to learn before I settle down. I'm not impatient anymore--just curious. A good friend of mine told me last night, "You are great. Don't let anyone make you think any differently. It'll all be ok... The universe tends to unfold itself as it should." Coming from someone who has seen a lot more of this crazy world than I have, not to mention has a few more years of it under his synthetic blue belt, I think I'll trust him.