I'm a little snail

I often wonder how. 
How do most people move so fast through life?

 

     I've never been sure if I just have my own thing going on in life, or if there's something "wrong" with me. But I feel like I go through life at a snail's pace compared to everyone else. After high school (homeschool!), I worked for a number of years. College was always in the plans, but it could wait. I woke up and I was 26. Time goes by so fast (yet also so slow). It took me 3 years to get my associate's. How in the HELL some people take 5 classes a semester, I will NEVER in my wildest dreams fathom how that is accomplished and maybe I don't want to know. I'd call those people NUTS. Now that I'm at my 4-year university, I'm taking a full-time load (without a job, without kids) and it's straight up exhausting. I've decided to transfer to a new school....that's gonna add another year. So 3 years for a bachelor's. 6 years to get a degree altogether. I'll be a fresh college graduate at 32 almost 33! I've been in a relationship for almost 8 years now - affianced, but not yet married. We've been planning to get a dog for like 6 years now and I'm sure it will happen...eventually. 

 

     I guess I just don't feel such a rush like everyone else does. I admit that not having kids and not having pets, being pretty "free" of that type of responsibility I'm sure plays a big part. I've never been rich or privileged how most people see these words, but maybe a privilege in life is having family, friends, and partners encourage you to do life in your own time and do what makes you happy, even if that means you are financially poor, or don't have a career that's well respected. I never had those types of pressures. I consider life to be a series of fun adventures waiting ahead of me. Why rush through it? I'm here to enjoy my one and only ride.