Why It's Okay To Start Over

Hey y'all. Bit of a personal one from me today. I'm talking about starting over and why that's completely okay - even if it does scare you shitless. I did a post, a couple of weeks ago, on why we should embrace change but thought I would go into detail about if that change involves starting over. From scratch. Scary, huh?
I made a decision a few months ago to have a career change. I graduated last year and was quite lucky to fall into a job pretty much straight away in a related field. Happy days, right? But, basically, I got a bit bored. Despite thinking I was certain that a job in PR/social media/copywriting was right for me, it just wasn't. And it was hard for me to accept that. I had all the right qualifications and experience to essentially work my way up in that field, if I so wished, but something was stopping me. I just didn't want to. I didn't have the passion or the drive. So I decided something had to change.
I didn't make any rash decisions. Infact, I stayed at my last job for a year, despite having these thoughts after only a couple of months of working there. But I thought long and hard about what I wanted to do and decided to just go for it. I set up a work experience placement and, once that was finalised, I handed in my notice. I then got a part time job to actually pay da bills and have (attempted to) put my heart and soul into my blog to perhaps gain a bitta income from this, as well. 
I'll be applying for teacher training this year and (hopefully) starting a course next year - if I manage to get on one, that is. And then, fingers crossed, I'll be ready to teach my own lil class by 2017! Wow, that really does seem like forever away, right?
It can be hard, sometimes, to accept the fact that I've kind of gone back to square one. I'm back working in a retail job so I can volunteer in a school a couple of days a week and I'll have days where I feel like I'm 17 again. Not a 22 year old graduate who, until a couple of months ago, had a full time job with a fancy-ish title, their own car and flat. (I still have the flat but, sadly, have to sell the car  *sob*)
And it's daunting to think that this time next year I'll have yet another year of university to get through until I can finally get started with my career. But then I remember that, actually, I'm still only 22. And to be quite honest, it wouldn't even matter if I was 42. There is nothing wrong with starting over. It's just plucking up the courage to actually go through with it that can be the hardest part. Having to admit to yourself that the life you have carved for yourself didn't turn out quite like you thought it would. 
But, guess what people? Things change. YOU change. Yes, it can be truly soul destroying to admit that, what you thought you wanted, isn't what you want after all. But it's much better to accept that fact, and do something about it, than to carry on doing something that doesn't make you happy. Whether that's a job, a uni course, a relationship or whatever. 
Despite having days where I feel like a broke failure, overall, I'm actually a lot happier than I've been for a while, right now. Starting over was terrifying but I've accepted that sometimes you have to take a step back in order to take a step forward. And that's enough for the cliches now, I think.
Have you ever started over with something?

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