So much of life is spent planning for the future. Looking back on what middle school, little nerd Inocencia wanted out of life is so completely different than where I am now. For one, I no longer what to live in a van. Secondly, I did not plan to go to a different high school every year. When I was told that I was going to be starting my senior year of high school in yet another town, I felt sort of betrayed.

Yes, this is slightly overdramatic but I was told that the place I spent my junior year was going to be the last time we moved. That place was really important to me. I felt like for the first time, I was being seen exactly the way that I wanted to be seen. That school was the Great Gatsby of schools.

Since I got into high school, every year had been better that the last. This time was no exception. My senior year was spent with some of the best people that I have ever met. I met a boy who is so content with his life that he forgets to write antagonists into his stories. The friends I made there were always up for an adventure. Our watches were set in between times zones.

I live a sort of "first thought, best thought" type of life. I make up my mind about something and it is set. There is no changing it. Everything is set in stone with me.

That is why whenever something that I planned to happen doesn't happen, it feels catastrophic. After my application to my dream college got deferred, I held on relentlessly to the possibility of it not being a no. When I had gotten the e-mail that I had not been accepted, I felt like every crying-in-the-rain-in-the-middle-of-the-street scene in movies.

After financial complications with my second choice school arose, I felt like I was doing everything wrong. I felt like middle school, little nerd Inocencia might have gotten her wish in the end. But once I started going to Adrian College, I knew that I had finally fallen into place. I am so happy with where I am now. I feel like my life is a really good music video. That's really saying something.

If you are unhappy with where you are at now, know that you have the power to change it. Every day has the potential to be the beginning of the rest of your life. But if you are just upset that life didn't go according to plan, give it some thought first. Maybe something was pulling you there.

So consult God, or karma, or Buddha, fate, Allah, the universe, yourself. See what it is that you really want and then make it be what you base every decision on after that. If it isn't working towards your dreams, then it's the wrong decision. Wherever you end up is going to be beautiful. Just have the courage to say that you will get there sometime soon.