The in-between years

Life is just full of people asking us what we want to do or what makes happy. People everyday come up to me and ask me what I plan on doing for the rest of my life. I usually make up some answer about my job or future husband and where I want to live. But in all reality, I don't know. In all reality I, and most of my friends, are in what I like to call, the in between stages of our lives. We are in a place where we aren't young but we aren't old; where we know how to take care of ourselves but sometime we don't; where we can't really think about where we are gonna be 5 years from now because quiet frankly, we have absolutely no idea. Half of the time we don't even know what we are doing for dinner when 7pm rolls around and we are starving. We spend our days in libraries, classrooms, mediocre jobs, and bars just plainly try to get by hoping that someday there will be more.

I am definitely not saying that these years are bad times. I have had some of the best times this year. And I am also not saying that after the in between years end, that things don't change for people. What I am saying is that planning things out is just tough because nothing is even remotely secure right now. I have no clue where I will be working at someday, or even what field specifically, who I will marry or anything of that sort. These years are the years that we have to work up to those things. We have to fight through these years that seem almost meaningless at times to get to the places where we feel like we were meant to be or with the person or people we were meant to be with.

I will say one final thought on these years that I consider the in between years: we do have to enjoy them. As of right now we don't really have much to worry about. Well, yes we do because our careers and futures are completely unknown but as long as I do find something in the fridge or pantry to eat when 7pm rolls around, life is generally ok. Life is truly generally ok. And that's ok. We will someday find our calling, whether it's beings mom/dad or being a crazy successful attorney, we just don't know what's gonna happen. And that, well that's ok too. We will get there. So for now lets enjoy those nights at the bars, and the days we have to spend in classrooms and libraries or working those mediocre jobs. Because someday they will all be memories of the good and bad times that made you the person you ended up being.