deciding whats important

Now I have been in Copenhagen for two weeks. In 10 days Im leaving for Malaysia. Im going to work in Kuala Lumpur for one year as a trainee. Seeing other countries is a must now, I dont want to stay in Denmark, I want to go! I only I could bring my apartment, my friends and my family with me.

It is hard to put a finger on thing I have learned, but one thing is for sure:
When I came back I had a small feeling of missing out of all my opportunities as a student at CBS - I missed all the networking events, all the important guest lecturer, all the activities which would put me in connection to important people which I felt fatal to my future carreer. Then I read the student magazine CBS Observer - and it gave me this stomach ache. Its focused on all the successful students with own companies, great jobs in the pipeline and really high grades...and I felt guildy for not already have a great carreer, my own company, and a certain, predictable future.

I had to force myself to think back and re-feel some of the feelings of happiness and freedom I had along my travel in Vietnam and Laos. I met people who sold everything and went around the world for the money. I met people who quited their jobs so they could live out an old dream of biking from the Chineese boarder down Laos, Thailand and Malaysia to end up in Kuala Lumpur. I met people who lived 4 month in a bagpacker city working in a bar and 6 month as a firefigther in US year after year - and the firefighter job was only to earn some money for the next 2 month travel. I met people who fell so much in love with the country that they opend a small shop only to get enough money to eat every day. People can be happy with small resources; carreers, money and fame are not needed to gain that.
I learned that one can have a great life without a super carreer, super job and huge paycheck.
If I am going to have a great carreer, a super job and a huge paycheck it is because my interests and my impulsive and unknown way through life is going to take me there.. not because I have a tre or five year carreer plan, a mentor and a psychologist to get me there!