I, for one, latch onto anything I'm sure about. I knew I wanted to be in Nashville the minute I stepped out of the airport; I knew my dream school when I stepped on campus, and I've known I want a life in music as long as I can remember. So, I know where I'm going to school, but then what?

Expecting high schoolers to know what they want for the rest of their lives is a really hard burden to throw onto kids at only 16, 17, 18 years old. I'm pretty sure there are 40-year-olds who still have no idea what they're doing. At 16, I never knew what I wanted for dinner, so how could I have expected to know where I wanted to live for the next chapter of my life?

And yet, here we all are, choosing the schools we want to go to for the next few years or the trade we want to be in. Some of us will transfer, change majors countless times, change trades, or decide college isn't for them. Nobody can ever be certain of what the future may throw at them. No one is who they were in high school forever. And that's all OK.

Remember that you don't have to know what you're doing right now, as long as you're doing something, and you also don't have to know what you're gonna be doing in 5, 10, or 20 years from now because the future is going to be there when you get there. You don't need to know what it will look like right now.

As long as you keep going after what you think you want, or keep searching to find whatever it is that you want. Even if you're feeling lost, confused, scared and unsteady (like I think we all are, even just a little bit), just keep going.

People change, circumstances change, feelings change, and life is beautiful and weird like that. You can only control what you are doing right now, and even that doesn't have to be concrete as long as you keep going.

So stop fearing the future, enjoy the road leading you there and don't let yourself be discouraged by the uncertainty because you're going to be fine as long as you keep going.