People are always asking me what I want to do when I "get older" and I always answer with, "I don't know." But to tell you the truth, the only reason I use that as my response is because I have so many ideas that I can't narrow it down to just one or two. At eighteen years old, when we graduate high school, we are expected to know what we want to do with our lives. To me, this is rushing it. People who are 50 still don't know what they want to do with themselves, so how should an eighteen-year-old who hasn't had a chance to experience the world? We have to make decisions, we may mess up, we may lose our way, but good news--you'll figure it out!

There are so many routes that I would love to explore. I would love to travel the world working in many different places, but I'm also not against staying in the small comfort of the town I grew up in as long as I also get to travel for enjoyment on the side. There are so many things I have thought about doing and not being able to narrow it down is the problem. I guess that I'll just have to try all of the routes out and see which one works.

Entering *dare I say it* senior year of college brings up a whole new slew of struggles. You actually have to figure out what you're going to do after graduation. Gone are the days of your only worry being going to class or what the dining hall is cooking for dinner. Know you aren't alone. Your entire class of graduates is also trying to figure out what they are going to do once they graduate.

Just know you don't have to have it figured out. You will probably never have it figured out. Try as many new things as you can. You'll most definitely never figure it out if you don't try out a bunch of things. You won't know what you like to do or what you want to do unless you go and try out some things.

If you don't know what to do when you "grow up," don't worry. You will figure it out. Try out as many routes as you have to. You don't have to grow up until you say you want to grow up.