For a large number of today's young adults, higher education is an unavoidable necessity in order to get a job. Some of us have spent our entire lives getting ready for college and trying to get ahead of the game. For others, college isn't the foremost priority in their success plan. One thing that is common to almost all young adults, however, is the pressure to be sure to know what you want to do from day one.
I'm here to tell you something that you probably already know deep down: That's bull crap.
I'm currently a sophomore in college, and while I've never personally dealt with wanting to change my major, many of my dear friends have. Still others of my friends have found that college wasn't the route for them at all. These people have gone through something completely normal, rational and acceptable. How can society expect us to make a decision about the rest of our lives at the age of 18 and stick to it?
Some of us do, yes, but that doesn't make it any less normal to change your mind. Going to college is supposed to be an experience that introduces you to new ideas and thought processes. It's supposed to make you question what you know so that you can learn to think for yourself and form your own ideas. It's supposed to teach you what you can and can't live without doing.
If you come to college and change your major after one semester, that's okay. If you come to college and two years in you decide you'd rather just go straight into the workforce, great! If you initially decide that higher education isn't for you but change your mind a few years after high school, that's cool, too. The point is that you don't have to have your life figured out at 18. You don't have to have everything lined out, you don't have to have a set-in-stone plan, and you definitlydo not have to stick to a plan you made at 18 but hate by 20. This is your life and you are welcome to make it what you want.
The point of bettering oneself is to be happier and to achieve a sense of fulfillment. That means that you are allowed to change your mind and pursue your dreams even if they aren't the dreams you came into the first years of your adult life with.
Now go out there and do what you want to do
