Stability vs. Flexibility

During this boring day, I decided to walk to the bookstore with no particular purpose. After discovering that Barnes and Noble carries not homebrewing magizines, I found myself strolling through the travel section. This made me think about how to live a life. You can either have a stable life, stay in once place, hold a job for a long period of time, buy a house or condo, start a family, and see the same people day after day, or you could live a flexible life, moving from place to place, working makeshift jobs, having new experiences every day, meet new and interesting people, and not knowing exactly where you are going to end up. I know people to both of these extremes of different ages and sexes. Thus far in my adult life, I have been a very stable person, thinking of paying off debt, buying some real estate, thinking of my career over the long run. So at a young age I quickly transformed into a stable adult life while seemingly missing out on some instability that so many other younger people enjoy, such as moving abroad for studying or just the experience. Although the my stable path has me going towards a stable future, I wonder if in the future when I am forced into stability by a family, a mortage, and a career I will look back and regret that I never had the experiences that come with the flexibilty of being young.