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To The High School Senior Who Doesn't Have It All Figured Out

It's okay. Really.

Delaney Pollart
Jan 02, 2017
Kansas State University
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To The High School Senior Who Doesn't Have It All Figured Out
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Dear High School Senior,

"What are you doing next year?"
"Where are you going to school?"
"What are you planning on majoring in?"
"What do you want to be?"

These are the questions you've probably been asked, what feels like a million times, by teachers, parents, friends, and anyone who finds out you are a senior. I'm sure by now you have a rehearsed answer that you spit out, even though internally you are panicking because you don't know the answers. With graduation approaching, there are seniors everywhere, whether they admit it or not, that have no idea what they want to do with their lives. I've got news for you: It is okay to not know. Regardless of the pressure, you feel to have all the answers and have everything figured out, and it is entirely okay not to have every detail of your life planned out. Because the thing with plans is that, they change.

I was just like you. I had completely made up answers to tell people when they asked about my future because I didn't know what I wanted to do. Choosing a college was a stressful adventure itself, but once I got to college, my major changed within the first semester because I was still figuring out where I wanted my life to go. Truthfully I am still figuring that out. No one expects you to know everything you want to do in life. Seriously. What do you think of when you imagine someone wise who has life all figured out? Probably not an eighteen-year-old kid. Do you want to know what I imagine? I imagine nothing. I imagine nothing mainly because I am pretty sure everyone is just making it up as they go, even the wisest person you know probably still has doubts and anxieties about what is coming next.

So here is the thing, you only get to live these moments once; don't let your senior year be rough because you are stressing about having your entire life planned out by graduation day. Enjoy the little moments because your senior year will fly by, I hope that you will realize that whatever decisions you make about your future are ones that make you happy and can even be changed. You are allowed to change colleges, change majors, change clothes, change hairstyles, change careers, and change your entire life if you really wanted to for a reason. Having it all figured out is overrated anyway. It is your life. If you are going to live this life, you might as well enjoy it.

Sincerely,

A Former Senior Who Didn't Have It All Figured Out

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