EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | Contact
A woman who’s been working way up the career ladder over the years has now found herself heavily romanticising the sort of the kind of lifestyle hated as a poor uni student, after coming to the conclusion that maybe the high flying lifestyle isn’t for her.
Burnt out but paid handsomely for it, Lana Huntley, 32, says she knows it’s completely irrational, but she sometimes misses the days where it was okay to roll out of bed at midday and live on two minute noodles and tuna.
“All my life, I wanted to be where I am right now”, confesses Lana, “but now I find myself daydreaming about chucking it all in and getting a backpacker job in Europe. “
“Or selling everything and going full ‘Into the Wild.’
“Minus the part where he dies from eating wild berries.”
Lana admits she now starts to feel a pang of jealousy whenever she sees uni students enjoying an afternoon beer in the sun, or backpackers having a giggle behind the bar.
“Maybe it’s a mortality thing, but I really miss having no responsibilities”, she admits, “or people expecting anything from me.”
“I don’t know, sometimes I’d give anything to swap my shoebox studio apartment for a dilapidated sharehouse with six other uni students.”
More to come.
