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Yesterday I told my parents that I’d like them to buy me a one-way ticket to New York for graduation. They asked what I’d do there and I said I’d ‘figure it out’. Suffice to say they were not impressed, but I think it’s a great idea. 

Today, in class, discussion turned to graduation and what everyone was planning to do once we’d left. I braced myself, expecting everybody to talk about travelling the world, or going to become an entrepreneur or about just having some sort of plan. And so I was surprised when not one of us had any idea how we were going to spend the next few years of our lives. We bonded over failed job applications and the lack of money to be able to go abroad and it made me feel a lot better about my situation (or lack thereof).

Then our teacher told us a story about a friend he had at university, who dropped out of his law degree, to live with his girlfriend, in the hopes of finding a job that would allow him to utilize his love of alcohol. Through some twist of fate he ended up becoming a top buyer for a London wine seller and lived happily ever after. My teacher’s point was that things will eventually fall into place. Sure you have to put in some work to get you there, but everything happens for a reason and not having a plan is perhaps just as good as having a plan that seems completely set in stone. Because things change, things don’t always go as expected and opportunities can be found in the most unlikely of places. But eventually we’ll get to where we’re supposed to be.

I realise this seems quite idealistic, but it made me feel okay with not knowing what’s going to happen after June.