I am at a weird place now that I’m almost done with college. I complain daily about how hard things are and joke about how I want to drop out; however, I wouldn’t change this experience for the world.

Recently, I’ve been meeting prospective students and giving them some advice that others gave me. In the moment I hated this advice, but now I love it.

“You will end up where you’re supposed to be.”

It’s profound, all-encompassing, but annoying when you’re going through the college process. I’ve realized that this advice transfers over to finding a job, entering or ending a relationship, or even thinking of where to live next semester.

“You will end up where you’re supposed to be.”

I don’t think we cherish where our own two feet are enough. I could throw in other countries that are less fortunate, however, it’s not right to compare your situation to someone else’s. Yes, have compassion, but don’t compare your fight.

If you can learn to cherish where your feet are and appreciate where you’ve ended up, maybe you can enjoy your life more and maybe just maybe, enjoy this crazy world more.

America is wild right now. From mass shootings to Donald Trump’s stupid tweets, nothing seems right. Kids shouldn’t die, minorities shouldn’t still be fighting for their rights, women shouldn’t still be fighting for their rights, and people should be equal. No one seems to be listening.

But if you’re privileged enough, like me, to be placed in a situation where every opportunity is available to you: love where you are at. Specifically you, not this world. I have a tendency to think that my life and the world being okay are synonymous. If my life feels okay, then the world around me should as well. But that is hard to do because something is always going wrong.

If you can’t cherish where you are, then change it. Change your major, dump your significant other, change your job, find a new place to live, or fight alongside those fighting for their rights.

We don’t get a choice of where we are from, but we do get the choice of what to do with our life right now. We can change our circumstances.

“You will end up where you’re supposed to be.”

Maybe we need to do a little fighting to love where we are, a little fighting to change our world in order to love it, or a little stepping back to see how this unpredictable life plays out.

It’s hard to fight and hard to take a step back. But either way, isn’t it worth it?

Do what you need to do to look back a couple months or years from now and realize that it was all worth it.

“You will end up where you’re supposed to be.”