It's okay to not have it all figured out.

"Relax. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves you. You have a whole lifetime; time takes time. The only way to fail at life is to abstain."

- Johanna de Silentio

There seems to be so much pressure these days for people to have their lives figured out. What career are you going to have? Where are you going to live? How are you going to pay for anything and everything? Luckily, I learned from a fairly young age that it is okay to not have it all figured out. Sometimes it’s even okay to not have any of it figured out. Just relax, you’ll cross that bridge when you come to it.

More and more articles and books have started appearing on the topic of this being a generation that will have multiple careers throughout a lifetime. And even now, my father sits at the kitchen table reworking on his résumé as he prepares to take a new direction in his life. I find it admirable and brave. Who wants to do the same job for their whole life anyway? We need that adventure every now and again: to see the world from a new perspective, to learn new things, and to take a risk.

Can it be scary? Yes. Can it be intimidating to not have it all figured out? Yes. But whenever the anxiety of it all catches hold of me I remind myself that I’m not really in control anyway. It’s all in God’s hands and I know that He has a plan for me. Plus, if He wants something to happen it usually will, regardless of what I do. And with that understanding and trust comes a lot of freedom. Besides, as long as I have God by my side not much else matters anyway.

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

- Jeremiah 29:11