The rest of your life

The rest of your life. That was what stuck in my head after graduating high school. We grow up being told what to do and when to do it, then comes the last year of high school and all of the sudden you are granted the ability of choosing what you want to do. Personally I never understood that. How could you expect someone to just know what they want? That idea scared me, and not because it was the rest of my life, but because I didn't have an answer. I didn't even have a clue. So naturally, I decided to take a gap year, which was nice…until it wasn't. I started to get extremely bored and had nothing to do, which is why I took two classes at a Community College. It ended up being fine, but it wasn't satisfying. I was still bored and going to school, which I hated, so I dropped out. I ended up back to square one, and that wasn’t fun. One day the weirdest thing happened. I went to a psychic for a reading (I know not many people believe in that stuff but just bare with me). The first thing she told me was that I was lost. Of course she was right, it was something I never verbalized but was true. After a bunch of other things she asked me about my creative side. When most people ask me about this I assume they mean photography since that was really the only thing I was good at. When I said this she said 'no, your writing'. At first I hadn't even thought of that because I never really talked about it. I had written a story in eight grade and \ a story after I graduated high school, but it wasn't something I took seriously. Once I left, I started asking myself, 'what would I write about?' Eventually, I came up with the Storm Trilogy. When I started to take it seriously I realized this is what I want to do for the rest of my life. My point to anyone reading this post is: I know what it's like to be lost, I know that it's frustrating and annoying. I also know that sometimes you can't listen to societies rules. As far as we know we get one life, so you need to do what makes you happy even if you don't know what that is yet. So don't give up or feel like a failure because you're not. You still have the rest of your life to figure it out.