Currently, I'm in a weird point in my life. I'm a young college student, trying to find myself. That seems pretty normal. After all, that's what college is for: self-discovery. But what does "finding yourself" actually mean? Finding what makes you happy? Finding the career you want in the future? If you're unhappy, does it mean finding what is causing you to feel empty and cutting those things out of your life? If you're pursuing a career that you've worked your entire life to get to, but end up hating it, do you change paths?

I'm constantly searching for an answer to these questions. However, when it seems as though I have found an answer to one question, I come across ten more questions. What makes the quest for solutions so arduous is the fact that happiness and meaning in life is not tangible. To some, material things can evoke feelings of happiness.

Of course, the material things do not possess happiness themselves. It's how we react to obtaining these things. Happiness and success, like beauty, is purely subjective. Looking for these things is like hunting for a ghost. They can be hiding in absolutely anything. The only tool we have at our disposal is our feelings. Suppressing your feelings can leave you stranded in an unfulfilling and hopeless life. We have instincts for a reason. These instincts are meant to lead us in the right direction.

Typically, I've found that things don't go nearly as planned. Nothing runs smoothly and there is always something hindering what I intended to do. You could argue that it's just poor planning, but I would like to believe that it's fate changing things for a reason.

As Iron Mike Tyson once said, "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face." We all have a general plan for where we want our lives to go, but we never know when something is going to come out of nowhere and change all of that. When it does, will you continue your original journey, or veer off into something entirely different?

In school, teachers always told me that I have a bright future ahead of me. I'm not a huge fan of that expression because, regardless of how much promise you possess, your future will always be at least partly cloudy. Sometimes, it may even be crazy stormy. Despite your future's forecast, it is important to look up at the sky. A lot of times, all you see is the emptiness of the universe. Other times, you will discover opportunities and the steps needed to ascend to bigger and better things.

While I clearly don't know what I'm aiming to find, I know that I will feel it when I do.