From the time that we were little, we were asked with most engrossment what we would want to be when we grew up. At first, we dreamt up answers and said we wanted to be astronauts, princesses or professional unicorn riders. As we grew even more into our later high school years, our minds grew more filled with thoughts and often many clueless ones regarding the direction we wanted to go. In each class it was implemented that college was the bridge to our future careers. Now that I have only a mere year left before I head off into that so called bridge, I haven't a clue what I want to do with the rest of my life. Though I have a list of makeshift backups just in case an inquiring but border-line intrusive adult asks. Some of them are quite interesting, such as doctor, lawyer and professional circus performer, but none of them are me.
How can you know what you want to be? That's like asking what meal you would like to have 15 years from ow. I mean sure I like Lasagna, but 35-year-old me might be feeling the low-fat vegan salad because I turned out to be a vegetarian and an animal lover. What I'm trying to say is that a choice that is so big that effects you for your whole life shouldn't need to be made when you are exiting high school, or maybe not even your first year in college. That's a decision that could affect every part of your future from then on and a choice that comes with the most responsibility.
Many kids in college pick a major that is simply "undecided," and most will change their major at least once, if not more times. Some people come out of college with not a single idea regarding what to do or where and how they will use their major, but there is nothing wrong with that. It's not as uncommon as people make it seem to not know what you want to do, because often what you want to do won't be the same tomorrow as it was today. Everything is changing, everyone is changing and surely your major in college will be changing too. The only thing guaranteed is change, and trust me there is a lot of it.
High school is not the place for making that hard decision, that's what college is for. College is the place where you find out who you are. So there is no need to know your major, or even what your going to do a year from now or even a day from now. As long as you have a reassurance in yourself, than there is nothing stopping you from the you that you're supposed to be. So take a deep breath the next time someone asks you what you want to be or do in college, because whatever you say is not written in stone.
