What Am I Doing With My Life?

One of the things that many college students ask themselves is, "What do I want to do with my life?". It's actually a popular question. One that few of us actually are able to answer while still in college. I, myself, knew from the moment that I received my acceptance letter from Texas A&M University -- I was meant to be a Psychology major.

And I mean that was cool, for a start. I later saw that just having an idea was only a small chunk into the enormous galaxy of possibilities in which is my future. Having an idea of what I wanted to major in was cute while in high school but as I entered college I seen that only more questions was waiting for me on campus.

Today, I was posed with an interesting question from an unusual source. I was showing my family around the campus and we came across an unusually, interesting man, with an unusually interesting question --- (paraphrasing) "What are your plans for your future?". Now I must say, after so much deep thought post graduation, I still had not come up with an idea....or so I thought.

When he came up to me and asked me that question....the sad, honest to God truth is that I did not have an answer for him, although I had an answer. Weird right? I had an answer while not having one all at the same time.

The truth is I do have an answer. The part that is missing is the how and because of that, I kept my thoughts in secret. Isn't it amazing, that although I have graduated & am working on a career, I still don't feel confident in the direction of my future to actually repeat it out loud. .....AND THAT'S THE PROBLEM.

Let me be the first to say that we are all searching for the purpose of our lives. We all constantly ask ourselves, "Why are we doing what we're doing?" The fact of the matter is that everything that we are doing at this very moment is molding our hidden purposes in our lives. I know that we all would like a nice, cookie cutter answer but it all comes down to the obvious --- we are a work in progress.

So breath and know that you are building your future at this moment. I've learned that our jobs are not to have all the answers but to constantly be searching and working hard to discover what those answers are.

Going back to the original inquiry about my future, I became unsettled with my original answer. It wasn't deep enough to express my passions, however maybe that just represented my overall surface level tries of discovering those passions.

I am grateful for that unusually interesting man. He made me think deeper into myself and to pull out even deeper desires in my heart and to use them to motivate me to keep searching for that deeper hunger for my future.

So to my college students reading this or my beast working hard in the workforce, please know that it is not only about finishing the race but about the rocks, brooks, and fallen trees that got into your paths that you overcame and still learned from anyways.

Much love to you all! Night, Night!

"For What Is Your Life?" - James 4:14