@prpinrni–can’t figure why it should or does matter to you or anyone else. The important thing to do is get your degree and also experience that will allow you to get a job.
Comparing yourself and age at graduation accomplishes very little, other than make you feel inferior to those who graduated younger and superior to folks who graduated older.
It’d best to set your personal goals and achieve and surpass those–not arbitrarily comparing yourself to others as to how you’re better at A but not as good at B.
If you can’t do this on your own, perhaps use campus counseling services to learn this, as it will help you to have a more content and satisfied life (as opposed to vanity of those you “exceed” and envy of those whom you feel “exceed” you).
You do seem a bit obsessed with this. Your time would be better spent getting the most out of college while you’re still there. Take classes that interest you in subjects you have a passion for, learn all you can, and meet new people/friends (preferably ones who don’t care about what age you are when you graduate). This is a once in a lifetime opportunity many people never have. You don’t want to look back someday and kick yourself for wasting it worrying about what others think. I know it’s easy to get caught up in that at your age, but anyone who would care about your graduating at 23 and looks down on you it . . . . isn’t worth caring about.
No one would have cared that you were 22 and 8 months either, had you stuck to your original plan. No one. Unless they’re your friends, none of your classmates probably even remember your birthday. The rest won’t care, and certainly don’t care if you’re graduating a few months past 22.
So your life isn’t going exactly as you planned-3 months and an extra semester is NOTHING in the grand scheme of things! Worry about getting your work done, doing what needs doing and you’ll be fine. No one anywhere is likely to ask why you graduated when you did unless it’s a HUGE gap, like years later.
I do hope that your plans to get a high-paying job just to make other jealous the second your finished college have met with reality by now and you’re simply trying to be a good student and a good person.
Some people keep track of the dates of baby’s first smile, first tooth, first step, first word. But no one cares how many years, months, days old you are for your first college graduation.
It will be hard for me to prove that I’m a good person if I don’t have a high-paying job. That will be the only way for me to prove that I’m willing to share my wealth with other people.
Prove to whom, exactly? To yourself, to others? Why does it matter to you so much what others think? A “good” person is good whether he is wealthy or not. If I remember from another thread of yours, you wanted to be wealthy enough, and your friends needy enough, so you could assist them financially and “prove” yourself. Sorry, that’s messed up and that’s not indicative of being a good person.
Other people do not exist to validate your existence. You need to figure that out on your own.
And nearly no one would care if you were 23. What’s the real issue here? The important thing is to do your best and finish. Life’s tough enough without worrying about a few months.
Me being in a bad mood is what resulted in me saying that I wanted people to be jealous of me. However, I still want the opportunity to show my friends how much I care about them.
I’m edging pretty close to thinking this entire thread, like OP’s others, is a farce. But in case it’s not, you absolutely DO NOT need to be wealthy or have a high-paying job to prove that you’re a good person You can show people-friends, relatives, co-workers, etc. that you care about them buy…caring about them. Asking if they need a ride, helping them move, inviting them for dinner, you know, being NICE. You babysit when a cousin needs to go somewhere or you drop by and feed your neighbor’s dog. Lots of things can be done that don’t cost a penny.
The most selfless, kind, caring person I know is dirt poor, through no fault of her own. Like you, she is in college, and her primary goal upon graduation is to help others, not to be rich so she can “help friends”. That’s because she already does.
You really might want to consider counseling. You’re going about this all wrong.
