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Not Knowing What You Want to Do in Your Life (And Why That's Actually Okay) By Sarah Bargfrede

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Its February and as you all probably know, the topic of the month is “Anything Goes.” That means it is time to flex our full creativity, no restraining topics or guidelines to prevent you from writing your heart out about your purest passions and deepest desires. Absolute. Unmitigated. Freedom. And yet, I have absolutely no idea what to write. After spending approximately thirty minutes of my life rephrasing the ways to look up “what to blog about” I finally came up with an idea (no thanks to any of the repetitive sources on the internet telling me to post cooking recipes and how-to guides as if I’m qualified to do anything that involves a hot oven or general life skills). As evident in my title, the topic of my blog is the acceptability of being unprepared for the future, a post near and dear to my hyper-organizer, planning-centered self.  The guidance counselors are probably having a seizure reading this essay, especially with their recent discussion about our c...