I think the trajectory of a person's life is probably a curve fitted by several key points, right? Work should count as one of the points.
More and more people feel that determining work is a very serious and even harsh thing. After all, for most people, work is settled, and many things in the future will be affected by it.
You will stay in a city, you will start to meet a group of new people, you will start a new life
The "newness" of all these things may be the result of many choices, and you have to give up a lot. Of course, if you have given up, it means that it is lighter than what you want. But for me, who is nostalgic and has difficulty giving up, it is still too cruel. I am the kind of person who wants to live in the past and the present forever. I am reluctant to give up all that I had and now, and to leave everyone who has entered my life.
However, after all, you have to walk a lot of roads and brush shoulders with many passers-by of life. Even if you walk together for a long time, there are many people who will become memories of your journey.
For a graduate student like me, although there are many difficulties in scientific research, I still do not expect the day when I graduate from work.
Having said so much, the next road is still all reality. All nostalgia is a sad feeling of futility, but I will cherish everything now, try to maintain it, and try to make some of it eternal.