I feel like I am in a chapter of my life where there is a lot of uncertainty. When you finally graduate high school you feel a sense of freedom, but you are also making some of the biggest decisions of your life. People have probably been asking you for years if you are going to college, where you are planning to attend, what you think you want to study and what you want to do when you grow up. People are interested in your plans and during the last part of high school, these questions seem endless.

I know first hand that this can be frustrating but these questions are valid and you should be paying them some thought, but no you don't have to have a definite answer. There can be a lot of pressure of young adults, especially around graduation to figure your life out and I'm sure you feel like people all around you seemed to have it all figured out. Feelings of uncertainty can be scary but I have come to find that it is ok to be unsure and to not know exactly what you want out of life at 19 years old. Some people don't figure it out until much later in life, there is time.

Personally, I have been more confused about life in the last probably a year and a half than I ever have before. This confusion obviously is extremely natural because there is so much change happening. Finishing high school and trying to figure out what is next for you is intimidating. It can start to feel like your whole life depends on what you are doing and the decisions you are making right now.

I am here to tell you that this is not true. Yes decisions you are making may impact your life of your life but there is always room for growth and even change. I know for me it was hard to wrap my mind around the fact that you can in fact change your mind about the area you want to study and the job you want to have but figuring all of this out times time, trial, and error.

It is okay to not know.

I have come to terms with the fact that I can't plan every detail of my life in a day. I love to plan and look ahead but sometimes by doing this I forget to pay attention to what is actually going on around me, and I know this can happen easily to anyone. My advice to those people like me who are constantly trying to figure everything out and are terrified that you are picking the completely wrong path is to try your best to not worry.

When the time came for me to start thinking about where I wanted to go to school and start making those plans with my parents and guidance counselor I really had no clue. With my parent's help, I ultimately decided I would be taking my general classes at a community college. Within three weeks of classes at Maple Woods Community College I had applied to Northwest and had decided I wanted to study Public Relations. I had done some research and thought long and hard about jobs I could picture myself doing and ultimately decided that studying PR would allow me to do any of these things because it is extremely broad (as dumb as it sounds this was kind of an epiphany I had one day) .

This is what I mean when I say it takes trial and error. I knew Maple Woods was not the place for me and was not happy so I did something about it. I promise everything will fall into place. Don't be scared to change your mind, it had been my plan to go to community college for years and I felt extremely guilty for changing it and was worried my parents would be mad. But taking the leap of faith and telling them what I was feeling and just going for it was one of the best decisions I have ever made.

This year has been the year of my life that had the most uncertainty, hands down, but it has been the best one of my life. All of the uncertainty I felt led me to step out of my comfort zone and I ended up discovering so much about myself. So if you are freshly out of high school or even in college like me, and completely terrified you aren't doing the right thing or on the right path, I assure you-you will be just fine, and honestly if you are thinking and worrying about it means you care and that is the most important thing.