Rainer Maria Rilke has a brilliant book for writers (or anyone really) called Letters to a Young Poet. It's just beautiful. One of the most memorable passages is:
"You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. and the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
I think there is a lot of pressure on college freshman to KNOW the answers. How are you supposed to know how you will live the answer in the future if you aren't allowed to live the questions? I am thirty (cough cough) years old and I am just figuring out my career (and many other things). There is a beauty in the not knowing what the future holds... otherwise it wouldn't intrigue us. It is okay to dream, to wonder, to explore your options.
I feel more Rilke coming on in the form of trusting yourself but I will save it for another day. XO
