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Instead Of Going Left, Go Right

Not knowing what to do isn't a bad thing.

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Instead Of Going Left, Go Right
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What do you do when you don’t know what to do?

You go left, because you already tried going right.

What do you do after graduation? Listening to some people talk about how they have five year plans, and how they have the next 10 years of their lives planned out, and in case the other plans don’t go correctly they always have another plan, to hearing people talk about how they have no idea what they want to do and have no idea what they want from a piece of paper that says you went to class for four years and were committed enough to shake your president's hand for half a second.

You know that four years goes by faster than you think, but then that day comes and you still don’t know how fast it actually does go. To all the memories you make and all the nights out, nights studying, the time you impulsively bought a dog, how the boy broke your heart, how you broke a boy's heart, to the friends that you probably fought over stealing their ketchup because who actually does that? But all those things in those four over five years suddenly come to a stop, and you are at a standstill on a stage in front of hundreds of adults who have been in the some sort of standstill like you are at that moment in time.

I don’t think either take is wrong; personally, I’m probably in the middle somewhere, with an idea, just not sure if I actually want to do it.

I think that you’re programmed to think that your thoughts, whatever they are, are most likely correct, until you hear someone else’s thoughts and you start to question your own.

I think as human beings we forget that everything, regardless of what someone else thinks, is always going to be one step at a time. So if you don’t want to go to grad school after graduation, then don’t; if you do want to, then go. If you want to just scale around breezing through the wind like a butterfly on a sunflower, then by all means do it, because whatever it is that you actually do, it’s the right thing to do. Just because everyone else goes right doesn’t mean you have to go to right, you can go left.

And for the people with a plan, I idolize that, because I wish I could get my life organized enough to have one. Your right is someone’s left, always remember that.

Everyone does everything differently, and being open to the thoughts of others only makes yours stronger. Whatever you end up doing is the right turn, regardless if some writer tells you so and you believe it or you actually believe it yourself. What is meant to happen will, you can’t fight fate.

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