Everyone has something they’ve always wanted to do. When you were little, maybe you wanted to be a ballerina or an Olympic gymnast or a rock star, but chances are these dreams changed a bit growing up. For some, they stay, but for others, most often we see these dreams disappear and turn into wanting to become a doctor or a lawyer.

That was me. I went from wanting to be a professional dancer to wanting to be in politics. It’s never a bad thing to change your plans, ignore everyone who says you’re “selling out,” but these types of careers definitely have different paths to getting there. I’m the kind of person who’s always liked to know exactly what my path was to getting where I wanted to be. For example, I want to manage political campaigns, and I had every last detail planned out down to where I wanted to go to law school and where I was going to live and how I was going to build the perfect network around me to get that perfect job right out of school. And then I started exploring other options. And even weirder, I realized I think I like those options better. And even double weirder, I liked that I had no idea what my future held.

So sometimes, plans get a little lost and paths become unclear. Sometimes what you have in your head isn’t the most feasible scenario. What I’m now realizing, though, is that that’s OK. Look at your parents and all of their careers, no two people came to the same job the same way. Maybe one person got lucky and stumbled upon this position and it was so effortless, but someone else had 15 interviews and was unemployed for a year before they found this job that they had to fight to get. Both of those people got the job, so what’s the big deal? Nothing, nothing is the big deal about this. It's totally OK to have no idea what's in store; in fact, maybe it's even better.

Maybe we don’t have to have everything planned out all the time. Maybe we don’t have to follow these conventional norms of how to become a lawyer, politician, accountant, doctor, or nurse. No one knows in what way you’re going to get somewhere.

What I’m saying, though, is while growing up, everyone tells you exactly what you have to do to be successful as if there is one way and one way only to get there, but this just isn’t the case. If you really want to do something, you will do it. That’s a fact; you'll get yourself there if you really want to. Everyone has the potential to get exactly where they need to go inside of them, but accept that the path there may be rocky and it’s definitely unclear.

Honestly, though, I think that might be a little more fun. This way, you know where you’re ending up, but you never know what the journey will bring you. You never know what opportunities you may stumble upon and what crosses you may have to bear. But, if you ask me, half the fun of life is that it never fails to keep you guessing.

So kick back, relax, and enjoy the fact that you just lost your path. Because it might actually be a blessing in disguise.