In my senior year of high school, we took portraits for the yearbook. Next to our photo, they told us that we would be able to put a little blurb about ourselves and a short quote. Now, me being me, I had been thinking of quotes to use since freshman year. I wanted one that was funny but still helpful. I would dig through quote pages online, looking for that perfect quote to put beside my face in the yearbook.

One day, not long before the quote was due to be handed in, I found it. I saw it on a page that I had seen before, but that did not have this specific quote before. It hit me, and I knew this was really the one. What was it, you may ask? Well, I'll tell you.

"The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.'"―Ricky Gervais

At first glance, this may seem like the dullest phrase you've ever heard. I challenge you to meditate on it for a moment. How many times have you been intimidated by people who look like they've got it all together? How many times have you wanted to try something, but hesitated because you thought you could never get to your idol's level of expertise?

Now, I'm not saying you and a heart surgeon have the same amount of knowledge with respect to the placement of veins and arteries. I'm speaking in a more general sense. I'm speaking about the knowledge people have going through their life. This quote made me realize that it's okay that I don't know how to go about everything in life because people just kinda figure it out along the way.

There is no secret handbook that you don't know about.

I don't have all the answers, and there's not much advice I have that you would want to hear. I just want to leave you with the reminder that you will be fine, and people of all ages are constantly learning about themselves and the world around them. Don't wait until an opportunity has passed you by, go out there and figure it out on your own, because that's the most valuable lesson of them all.