The other day, I was calling my friend after my sister had gone back to college following winter break, and the question of if I ever wanted to go to college arose. What do I want to do with my life after high school? I have always envisioned myself right out of high school attending a university, but now that the time to make a decision about my next step in life is quickly approaching I have realized that there are a lot of different options of what I could do in my upcoming years of life.

I always hear adults say, “I am an adult and I still don’t know what I want to be, you have plenty of time to figure it out,” but when I am grown I want to know what lies ahead and I want to work hard and have a passion that I am working towards. There is nothing wrong with not knowing what exactly you want to do in your future, but I like to have everything planned out and to be organized. Although that may not end up to be what my future looks like, that is what I strive for. 

I feel like when I think about how the future is quickly approaching, I hit a wall and can’t think. I currently want to know what I want to be when I grow up, so when the time comes for me to go off to college I have a clear path laid out in front of me. 

It always feels like I have so much time to plan for college or decide what I want my future to look like, but I realize that it is just around the corner. I am now closer to being an adult than to being a ten year old with no cares in the world. 

In school when we do career path planning and look at possible classes to take in our last few years of high school to match up with our interests, I don’t know what to put down. I am always so surprised that some people have clear ideas about what they want to do with their life and where they want to go to college. 

I find it hard to think about my future because every time I do, I get stressed out with the fact that I have no clear direction. 

I want to start thinking about what I would like in my future and begin to think about how to make that happen. Visiting colleges and just talking with friends and family about a career path in addition to taking classes that interest me will help me differentiate between what I would imagine I would enjoy and what would really be meaningful in my life, so I can begin to make a plan for my future.