The truth is that nobody really knows.

After graduating high school, I thought that I had my life all figured out. Looking back at it now, I can’t help but laugh. In reality, I had nothing figured out. My future may as well have been a giant question mark. I thought I knew what I wanted from life, but I didn’t. I still don’t know. And that’s OK.

The truth is that nobody really knows.

Why do people always ask, “Where do you see yourself in 20 years?”

Why would I possibly know that?

I have no idea where I will be in 20 years, and yes, that is terrifying. But it is also amazing. Those 20 years hold so many possibilities. So no, I don’t have any idea what my future holds, but it doesn’t matter. Not knowing gives me the opportunity to explore and to fall in love with so many different experiences and places and people. Not knowing gives me the power to make my own choices and decide my own future. Nobody knows where they will be in 20 years or what their life will be like.

Will the human race even be around for another 20 years?

The truth is, that nobody really knows.

So why do we worry so much?

I have no idea what I plan to do in the future, but I’m not worried, because I am content with what I am doing now. I am preparing for a bright, happy future. Maybe I won’t make it, but maybe I will. Honestly, I don’t know. It scares me a little. Not knowing…

But it’s less scary when I realize that nobody else knows either.

People seem to believe that you need to have your whole life planned out. Society has trained us that we need to know. We are supposed to know where we want to be in 20 years. We are supposed to know the answers to all of the questions that people ask about our future goals.

But why should we have to know what the future holds?

We don’t know.

Nobody knows.

So please, stop asking me if I know where I plan to be in 20 years.

I don’t.

But neither do you.

So, if you don’t know, don’t worry.

The truth is that nobody really knows.