To Whom It May Concern:

Do these questions of doubt ever fill your head? “Is this what I am supposed to be doing?” “Is this where I belong?” “Did this happen to me for a reason?” All these inconsistent thoughts about life, school, and relationships can fill your brain and make you lose sight of what’s right in front of you. We are told throughout life to make sure you have a plan of action. From the moment we are born we are conditioned. There always seemed to be an urge to get to the next age or step in life. When you get to 16 you get your license, but wait, I want to be 17 because that’s closer to 18, then that means I am legal. We are always moving in this fast-forward motion that never seems to slow down. You blink and before you know it you are headed to college or even worse, the real world.

If you are like me you have a tendency to compare the past to the future. That is human nature. We all can overanalyze situations and the reasons for which they happen. People may examine life moments and ask themselves “Why me?” The super cliché thing to say would be that "Everything happens for a reason." Although that statement is 100 percent true, it's those little moments that make you who you are. Every moment before this one is leading up to something that’s meant to happen for you. Although you may not be able to see it yet, that does not mean it is not there. If you didn’t get that red light, maybe there could have been a possible accident. If you didn’t do something you wanted to do because life got in the way, who knows what you could have missed out on! People feel like they have to check off these huge life events because that’s the norm of society. But we have the power to choose our own path. Steve Jobs believed that the world is the way that it is, and that your life is to live the life inside the world that has already been created for you. He said we should follow the standard pattern of others. But where is the fun in that? You can create a life that other people can live in. You can build and structure it the way you want.

Let me tell you this, you are right where you need to be. It's good to set out to achieve your goals and dreams. There is no better feeling than achieving something you have set your mind to, but when you get to that moment and you stop to look around what the journey was to get there, are you going to look back and remember it as an enjoyable or an boring experience? Life happens while you are making other plans. It’s the little moments in life that make your journey yours. We should take our energy we use overanalyzing what has happened/will happen to us and focus on the here and now. Because at the end of the day, we all want peace, but it's fleeting only existing in moments.