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I Have No Idea What I'm Doing

And for once, it's okay...

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I Have No Idea What I'm Doing
Jamie Nelson

I don't know what I'm doing, like at all. I have no idea what's going on around me usually. No idea where I want to go, or where I would even go if I went. I have no idea who I'm voting for, they both suck and I won't insult humanity by pretending like I even know the random third party's name. I don't even know what I'm doing when I wake up tomorrow. I really just don't know. But furthermore I don't know what scares me more, the fact that I don't know all this or that I'm oddly ok with it.

Life is so typical somedays; wake up, go to school, work, find a few times to eat, sleep, and repeat. We've all been here, the hamster stuck on the wheel, so when for once you don't know what's coming next it can be nice. We plan our lives out to the minute almost, putting it on display everywhere so not only do you know what's going on every second of your entire day so does the rest of the world. In today's day and age we have the answer to anything within seconds, everything is out there to know. Sometimes it's the best feeling in the world to not know for once.

Stepping away from the bustle of everyday life, just muting it for a while, is healthy. When you're constantly going, always being told what is going on in life, what you should like and dislike is exhausting all the time. I get it's part of life, and growing up, you've got to face life head on if you're to survive it, but for twenty minutes in the day let yourself not know anything but silence. It's in this space that we can find peace; if everyone just took a moment and stopped thinking, and judging, and pushing their opinions, maybe we could just exist at the same time peacefully for one full minute.

Imagine what could happen in that one moment of world peace? In a perfect outcome, we finally get tired of fighting and just drop our weapons, stop the hating, and actually start living the peaceful life we've spent so long fighting for. Maybe we learn to respect one another's lives, learn that no one way is ever going to be the ultimate way of life. Maybe we even learn to live happily without knowing for once.

What a world it would be if for a moment no one knew anything, and we all just existed together. We try so hard everyday to exist with one another, trying to make everyone else conform to our way. We want so much for everyone to like us, even when we say we don't care because we all do, so we work every advantage to get ahead. Knowledge is power, the more you know and how you chose to use it will take you further.

The knowledge of not knowing some days is one of the best feelings, life is almost alleviating for a moment. Anything is possible, and that leaves so much to wonder for the future; it's still all undecided and no one knows what they're doing either.

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