So, you just started college, and you are optimistic for the future, but you aren't really sure what it might hold for you, or maybe you've been in college for a while, but you still aren't sure what you're going to do when you get out. Both are okay. Just because you're in college doesn't mean you have to have your whole future laid out before you and set in stone.

With my third semester in college done and behind me, I find myself asking the same question my family does when I talk to them, "What're you going to do when you get out of college?" And to be honest, I really don't know. I have some ideas, but, I can't seem to place my desires for the future into any one place. This isn't a bad thing, so long as I address it and realize that eventually, I'm going to have to answer this question, but the time for that isn't today and not even tomorrow.

Because it's when I decide it to be.

When I started attending university, I thought I had everything figured out, I thought I knew exactly what was going to make me happy, and what was going to be my life. Of course, life will come at you fast and change in a moment, and so I find myself not so confident in my future. But now I have begun to realize that I don't have to, because I can just enjoy myself while I'm at college, and use this time to build relationships with people, and to progress myself as a person, and I think that is what this time is really about, because you can't know what you want your future to be until you realize what you want from yourself.

Once you realize that, the rest kind of comes naturally it seems, as when I realized that what I had initially set out on when I came to university was not what I was going to do, I realized that I needed to figure out what to do next, and this did set in as a form of panic. I began to stress myself out constantly, and I always worried about the next thing, but once I took some time to examine myself and the people who I surround myself with, I realized that the path I would take began to become more and more clear as time went on.

So, no, I don't know what I'm doing when I get out of college, and that's okay, because I'm taking this time to develop myself, and I think that is really what this time is about.