You go to high school. You get involved. You start to like it. You love it. You graduate. You go to college. You try your best to find the things you enjoyed. You can't. You don't love anything. You don't have a passion for anything. You're confused. You don't know what to do with the rest of your life.

It's okay. Neither do I.

I see lots of my friends so passionate and ready for their futures. They know exactly what they want to be, and they can't wait.

And then, there's me, and maybe even you. That have no idea what to do.

I was always told, if you can find what you love, be good at it, and figure out a way to make money through it, you have found success. So passion + ability + money = happiness, right?

I tried to figure a way to do this.

I loved cheerleading. I was a cheerleader in every aspect of life. My English teacher once told me I was "cheerleading personified." I took that as a huge compliment.

Then I got to college, and I was no longer a cheerleader. And really, what potential future can you make with that? Cheer coach? I'd love to know where that major falls in at ULL. So there's my passion.

I'm pretty good at getting things across to kids. I tutor pretty much any age group, and by tutor, it's not just giving the answers to their homework. I try to explain things in a different way than their teacher might have. There's my ability.

So yeah, I could be a teacher. That's using my ability to make money, and I don't hate it, but I don't know if I love it either.

And that's what I'm in right now.

But I'm not certain about it. I have friends that literally "can't wait to have their own classroom." That's awesome! But I can. I can wait. Because I'm not even positive it's what I want to do.

So, for the kids that feel they are not as excited for the future as their friends, or the college students that still have no idea what they want to do with their degree-- they just know they're 3.5 years in; they're gonna finish-- it's okay.

Life happens. Maybe I'll fall in love with teaching. Maybe I'll change my major. Maybe I'll stick with it, get that degree, and then do something completely different after college.

At least I got the dang piece of paper. I know that sounds dumb to just get a degree that you don't care about, but for those of us who don't deeply care about anything yet, still accomplish something.

We're 19, 20 years old. How are we supposed to know if 40 year old us will still like this career? We don't. Well, we don't know yet.

So yes, it's completely okay to have not found the job you love. Even though everyone around you has. They all tell you every day "You'll never work a day in your life if you love what you do." We get it.

We just don't know what we love to do yet.

But hey, I think we'll figure it out eventually. Everyone else already has, so one day we'll catch up, I'm sure. Or at least I hope so.

I hope to be like all of you that have your lives figured out. I hope to find what I love, get good at it, and make money doing it. I hope I can find my passion and do it forever, so I "never have to work a day in my life."

But for now, I'm okay with just testing the waters. Maybe I'm not meant to be one big thing; maybe I'm supposed to be a bunch of different things, have a bunch of different jobs, find myself in a bunch of different, little ways.

Maybe my passion won't be my career. Maybe it'll be my kids, or a hobby I find.

But those that have your lives together, stop fussing at us that don't have ours. STOP telling us we need to find what we love, because we're trying, dangit. But, our job might end up being just that, a job. We'll find our passion some day in life. Maybe not now, or even in college, but we'll find it.

I will figure out what to do with my life, and so will you. Maybe we won't be a doctor, teacher, or astronaut, but we might just be the community's favorite volunteer, best pee-wee soccer coach, or the mom with the tastiest chocolate chip muffins. We'll be something. We'll find our something that makes life worth living.

Because, although we haven't found our niche just yet, it's there. We're meant for something out in this crazy world; I'm sure of it.