The future is scary to think about it, the sheer wonder of what your life could be like in two months, six months, a year, or even five years from now...

The mystery of what life has held for you, who you could be, what would you look like? Married, engaged, single, a possible boyfriend, perhaps? Only the future has all the answers, which in theory can be quite nerve-wracking. Sometimes, our future is in the hands of someone else and the decisions they decide to make.

Let's think about it this way, when you apply to colleges, you don't have the ability to choose whether you'll be accepted or not. An individual may have an excellent transcript and is a well-rounded student, but won't be accepted because another student looked better on paper.

At the end of the day, sometimes our future is not in our own hands, at times decisions that may be devastating at the moment could be the best decisions made for us. Life has a reason our future is planned out a particular way to teach us lessons from different experiences. On certain gloomy days, I sit around and look at what my life is like now and where I would be if I ended up certain places.

To say the least, I'm content with my position in life, but I obviously hope to see myself in the years to come gaining great opportunities and being truly happy at where I progressed. Now, this is what my perfect future looks like, every decision made by me.

At this time, I'll probably be 25-26 years old, most likely graduated from college, which I'm ecstatic that I've finally finished school. I see myself making the realization that living in Minnesota isn't the best place to explore my boundaries. So, I explore possible cities to live in and find myself as an adult.

I explore San Francisco, Los Angeles, Europe, and make the decision to settle in New York City, the big city. At first, I regretted my decision and wonder why I decided to live in one of the most expensive cities in the world, but I realize it's the place I've dreamed of living since I was eight-years-old.

Obviously, I miss my home and family in Minnesota, but I need to explore the wonders of New York City. While in New York, I began exploring the diverse music scene within the city and began to take an interest. Through that exploring, I meet a wonderful musician that steals my heart away. We quickly fall in love and New York slowly become my home, I adopt a cat named Fabio, he's a pesky one.

I work a lot to afford the over-priced loft I live in Brooklyn, but she's a beauty, it's everything I hoped for. I may not have too much, but I'm happy with it, a home away from home, even though I miss my old friends and mom, I still occasionally visit. Life is pretty serene if I must say.

That's the ideal future, a life I can develop and create myself, but life isn't that way, unfortunately. Sorry to take a pessimistic route, but life is made of decisions and experiences that cannot be predicted. The future is not always in "our" hands, so make life worthwhile kids, not everything can turn out a particular way.