I am a college student. I go to class, complain about the price of textbooks, try to have a social life and have yet to experience the world and all of its wonders. Like most college students, I have my whole future ahead of me, and that tends to worry me at times. I feel so unprepared for the world that is sitting at my fingertips that I tend to forget about how amazing the opportunity to live really is. There are so many possibilities for the future, and the fact that mine is totally unknown to me used to scare me quite a bit, but if I think about it, if I knew exactly what was going to happen in my life, there would be no room for speculation and dreams, and that's the best part of living.

So I don't know if I'm good at throwing dinner parties, being in a long-term relationship or keeping a balanced bank account, but I do know and dream of a few things. I know sorrow and gladness. I feel invincible when sunlight hits my face. I relish in human emotion and greet every situation put in front of me like I would an old friend. I want to give people joy. I want to let people see life through someone else's eyes, for that couple in the very back of the theatre see two people fall in love on stage and for them to forget what they were fighting about before the play began.

I may not know why I was put on this earth just yet, but I have some ideas. I am here to be free, to help people and to fill them with excitement. I am here to play tennis, to perform heart surgery, to mow my neighbor's back yard, become a Pulitzer Prize winner and to fall in love. I am here to learn how to hate, how to solve differential equations and how to question all that I have learned, to figure out that life sucks sometimes but dancing in the rain can be fun. I am here to be a superhero, a stand-up comic and have an awesome catchphrase that I can call my own. I am here to open up a bakery, have a pet fish named Boris and to see the sunset from the top of the London Eye. I am here to make relationships that may or may not last, to host the Tony Awards, to have the time of my life every second that I am alive and to stare Zeus in the eye at the top of Mount Olympus. I'm here to star in an episode of "Doctor Who," to establish that there is nothing that I cannot accomplish, that I was made for the purpose of spreading joy and marveling at the stars. I'm here to paint my nails a different color every day of the week, to break my boundaries and shove down the barricades others have put up for me. I am going to be the eternal optimist, because tomorrow is always a brand new day. I am here to earn the respect I am given, to thank God for allergies, skinned-up knees, food poisoning and bad hair days, because those days make me realize just how wonderful life truly is.

See, my life has just begun and I am on the brink of greatness. I am here because my dreams are my future. I am here because the universe's plans have yet to take me somewhere else and I am totally alright with that, because if I was not supposed to be doing exactly what I am doing in this moment in time, then I would not be the person I am today, strengths and weaknesses, dreams and nightmares, quirks and unique traits. I am me, and I think that is pretty amazing. You are you, and you're amazing too.