WTF Do I Do With My Life?

Remember when you were seven years old. You'd look up to adults and think: "wow, they must know everything."

Then you're on the brink of adulthood and you realise that no one knows everything. The truth is, everyone’s just muddling through as best they can and trying to pretend like they’ve got it all worked out. 

And in no time, you'll be bombarded with the classic question: "what are you going to do after high school?"

Here's when you realise that you're just going to have to muddle through like everyone else and figure out an answer.

But for real... WTF do I do with my life? It's the age-old question.

Stepping out of the secure safety net that is high school gives you the opportunity for a fresh start. Your life is only really beginning and that's kind of exciting!

...but it's also scary, chaotic and up in the air. Where the heck will I end up? 

John Lennon once said: "When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life."

Good ol' John has a point there. You have to think about what will make you happy. You don't want to make choices that make you want to bang your head constantly against a wall for the rest of your life, or curl up in a ball of blankets and never come out.

And this doesn’t just apply to your career.

Shaping your life into something that makes you want to live it means finally cutting ties with those toxic “friends” that just drag you down and keep sucking you back in. It means forming meaningful relationships with people that make you smile every day. It means pursuing your interests and keeping up with your hobbies and making the most out of every opportunity you’re presented with. 

It makes sense to follow your passions. Life’s too short to waste years on something you didn’t really want in the first place. I have a fair few friends that pursued something that their family encouraged, or they thought would make them big bucks but didn't care about, or they just felt like they should because of their ATAR... Most of them changed degrees within a year and the ones that stayed are honestly, miserable. 

So, okay. Follow happiness and don't follow what you don't really want. Easier said than done! What if we still seriously don't know WTF to do with our life?

This is where having a Post-School Plan comes into play. Look, you don't have to have everything mapped out from now until the time you're 50-years-old. But figuring out a rough guideline of where you are, where you want to be and how you can get there will help with your lust for life.

Whilst you're mulling over the subject, get out there in the dang world! Spend as much time as you possibly can with your favourite people. Try new hobbies. Listen to people, podcasts and ted talks. Volunteer. Travel. Journal. Do everything and anything in your power to send it! Dip your toes into a million metaphorical pools, and find what’s best for you.

Just think, really think, what makes me happy? If you start there, you're in for a good life. Jeez, your future looks so bright, I need to put on some sunnies just writing this.