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What if you knew?

It would SUCK.

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What if you knew?

What if you knew?

If you could choose between the life we as humans live now, or live a life where you knew where you would end up, which would you choose? Would you choose the unforgiving life filled with unknown reactions to the infinite amount of choices we make daily, or a life of knowing what would come?

If this life was "perfect", this choice would be easy. We would all choose to know what was coming, and not have to second guess ourselves. However, the harsh truth is that we honestly shouldn't want to know what's going to happen. What's the point of life, knowing what was to come? Sometimes knowing all takes away the passions deep within us. If a pre-med college student knew they would be accepted into the medical school of their dreams, would they work as hard to get in? Would they develop the grueling study habits that let them succeed and stand out against their peers in applications? Probably not. Life would be extremely easy, however we as humans would end up depressed beyond belief. We would never experience the emotions of joy, opening an acceptance letter. We would never experience grief, because we knew the pain that was coming. The emotions that help us grow would cease to exist. If we knew that the person we were with wasn't the right person for us, we would leave, never learning the personality aspects of that person that made us compatible. We would never learn what heartbreak felt life. I'm sure a few students reading this are thinking that they would never worry about changing their major, because they would already know what was right for them. How would you learn what you didn't like? How would you understand the feeling of connection with what you're truly passionate about? There would be absolutely no connection to the profession you applied yourself to, because you never were able to learn the feeling of connection. Life is all about our mistakes, people. We're here to hit that curb, to run a few stop signs and to have our hearts broken, especially when we were convinced that we were going to spend our lives together. We learn by our mistakes, and as you grow up, you'll understand that every mistake is just a part of your path. If we didn't have mistakes, we would have no emotion. There would be nothing to be happy about, because nothing would bring sadness. We would avoid everything painful, never to learn joy. We would live a life of dullness, never getting to experience glory. Embrace your mistakes, and learn to welcome bumps in the road. Those bumps will lead you to places you never expected to be, because that is the life we are blessed to live.

With love,

Kaylee Waddell

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