'Where had it all gone wrong for me?!' I thought in my head as I sat alone in the reception room of my doctor's practice, racking my mind for an answer.

For my life had surely not meant to go down the aimless route it had done. There just was no clear explanation for it! Some might even go as far as saying that I started off my existence with a head start compared with others right from the moment I was born, having all the ingredients to become a poster child for success in life. Coming as I did from a loving affluent family where I grew up with two adoring parents who showered me with praise and compliments rather than harsh criticism.

And then going on to school, I had experienced pretty much more of the same favourable treatment. I had especially loved high school being one of the popular kids with lots of friends, some who even doted on my every word, to the point that I was nominated homecoming queen, an accolade I went on to win with ease.

Actually now on reflection perhaps I had been wrong about my high school days being so great as I found myself hit with an epiphany.

Yes, high school had seemed on the face of it to be all fun and games, but perhaps I had missed out on an important trick. With it now dawning clearly upon me that while I had been focused in my school days on making sure I looked all pretty and sounded cool to my peers, others who had been far less popular than I and who had chosen not to get themselves caught up in social pressures, had instead put their heads down and formed what seemed in high insight to me now to be concrete life plans for their future.