It's hard to know what you want to do in this world if you've never seen it - this is a personal philosophy that I discovered after returning to the states from my year studying abroad in Scotland. Previous to that year, I had lived under the assumption that I should always know exactly what I want to do and exactly what direction I needed to go in life - even though I really had no clue.
As a matter of fact, during my sophomore year, I was so afraid of falling behind and not getting a high paying job when I graduated college that I was applying for internships and jobs that in actuality I really didn't want.
While both the UK and the rest of Europe are pretty Western, the mere act of getting outside of the U.S. for a year opened my eyes to different cultures, different people, and different ways of life. In the end, I discovered a whole new "world" of opportunities, and I'm glad I can still take advantage of these opportunities because I didn't by making a rash decision during my senior year of college.