Imagine that someone told you that you'd only be able to taste one thing for the rest of your life and that you'd be given a year to contemplate and make a final decision on what your one ability to taste would be. You'd obviously be pulling your hair out in stress. I mean, it's only the rest of your life, right?

I'm also sure you'd be spending the rest of the year running around, trying to figure which foods have the most powerful tastes and which can be used in a variety of ways. It'd probably start influencing all other decisions you make, knowing that there was a ticking time bomb going off on something you'd spend a majority of your life doing. It's pretty easy to say that it'd become the hardest decision you'd ever make, due to how narrow the choices would become.

The good news here? Despite what career counselors, the education system, and most dinner party conversations with your family would have you believe, life isn't anything like that.

I was just like any millennial teenager going through their senior year at one point; I'd obsessively research college majors and feel as though none truly gave me the best of both worlds of doing what I loved while also making a semi-decent living. I'd take career and personality tests like the Myers-Briggs only to disagree with the answers and feel defeated.

And most of all, I felt that while I wasted my time trying to figure out what I was going to do with the rest of my life, that the rest of my life was passing me by. Even when I didn't choose anything, my options were still dwindling and soon I'd have no choice at all.

This may seem dramatic, I'm well aware, but it's the mindset that most young adults are pushed into these days, and not without reason. Of course, if you drop out and go to Italy to take culinary classes, you obviously won't become a brain surgeon.

If you go through with medical school, you probably won't move to Europe to become an artist. If you go to law school, it might be harder to go to the Peace Corps to teach the English language in a foreign country. So, in some ways, you're going to have to make some tough choices, whether you like it or not.

Here's some good news; Tony Blair, the longest-serving prime minister in the history of the United Kingdom's labor party, while also having success as a band promoter. Jimmy Stewart, one of the most recognizable movie stars of all time, also went to Princeton to study architecture. Believe it or not, most of the world's most famous and successful icons actually had successful second careers that were wildly different than what they were known for.

This life is non-linear and a lot longer than any of us ever give it credit for. We, as people, are constantly changing and evolving and there's nobody who's immune to that. This is why relationships either fail or evolve over time; people either adapt to their environments or suffer the consequences otherwise. And probably the most fluid part of ourselves are our interests, passions, and hobbies. Those are almost guaranteed to change whether we'd like them to or not.

John Green once said, in an incredible video blog on this topic, to "Study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you can because that will make your life more interesting. Read a little bit every day. But most importantly try to surround yourself with people you like and make cool stuff with them. In the end, at least in my experience, what you do isn’t going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with." What this means is pretty simple: you have time.

To all you kiddos that are in the throughs of their final semester, are still undecided when it comes to their major, still rifling through university applications, or are deciding how to tell their parents that they're dropping out and moving to LA to find themselves, know this: you have time. You have a lifetime to try things and reinvent yourself and start what you finish over and over and over again.

When your distant relative asks you at your graduation party, "So, what is it you're going to do with your life?", you can smile and know the answer: a lot. You're going to do a lot with your life.