‘What are you going to do after graduation?’ 

From a recent graduate: If you have the pleasure of talking with someone who has just graduated, for the love of god, don’t ask that question. Don’t. Chances are, they don’t know what’s ahead of them. For years of your life, your goal has been the same: graduating. You work relentlessly towards that, focus on passing finals, understanding that impossible subject, getting over that one professor that kind of traumatized you; and then, in a blink of an eye, it’s over. And you suddenly have to figure everything out. Internships, job applications, living situation. It is a lot! So parents, if you are reading this, maybe give your kids a break, and don’t ask what their future looks like. Babe, I just finished my career; my plans look like sleeping until noon for a month. 

And let’s be real, if I were to have a perfectly planned future, who are we kidding? That plan is probably not gonna happen. And, hey, I don’t mean that as a bad thing. But life has its own way of making things happen, and most of the time they don’t go the way we thought they would. Sometimes life turns a 180 swing from what we expected, but takes us to a much better place, a place where we are more aligned with who we are. But those things are impossible to plan. You have to go ahead with whatever life throws at you. Whatever that may look like.