It's MY life.

So I reeeeeally hate when people (mainly adults) talk to me about my future. It's not that I don't like talking about my future in general, it's just I always hear, "You better start figuring out what you want to do with your life." As if I'm on a path to nowhere. As if I have no sense of direction as to where I'm going in life. Don't tell me I better figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life fast before it's too late. No one really knows what they want to do with their life at 17 years young. Most people think they want to do something and work towards that degree or career and then somewhere along the way figure out they don't like that job as much as they thought they would. Then they say "Well you don't want to have to waste all that time and find out you don't want to continue down that path after all." Who says it's a waste? Every step is a new learning experience in life. I'm sure that if I do start to pursue a career that I don't end up liking, I will have learned many life lessons in between. Plus, what is life? It's time. The period of time from birth until death. So what's the rush? What am I running out of time with? Finding a career? Ok, once I find a career, then what? In this lifelong journey, you have to try to take as much out of it as you can and make your minute amount of time here, worth something. So go ahead, make some mistakes. Hit some dead ends. Try something new. Because all of those experiences will make you who you are. You just need to have some resiliancy. Once you hit a dead end, bounce back and get right back in there.

So when you tell me that I am running out of time to find out what I want to do with the remainder of my time here, I just laugh inside my head and think to myself how dumb you sound and how I bet you wish you took some different paths in your own life.