Figured Out

I think you've figured out the general concept of my blog by now (it is the title). Last week I got to meet with a few girls who graduated this year and see what they were up-to now that they were done. They were two girls who, while in college knew exactly what they wanted to do in life, where they wanted to go and want they wanted to achieve with their careers. Our conversation got me thinking about somethings in the collegiate world.

How much time do we really have to figure our shit out? I always had a "idea" of how I wanted my life to pan out. Married around 23-24, kids around 24-25, settled in my career and family life around 26ish and owning a house before the kids. Now that I'm 24 I can't imagine being married and having kids. Hell, I still am a kid (at least at heart). I can hardly remember to put shoes on my feet before I walk out the door let alone remember a kid and their diaper bag.

On the same note, when should we really have our shit figured out? I know I want kids before I'm 30, which means, most likely, marriage before 30 and a house before 30. That only gives me 6 years left to figure it out. What I want to do with my life, where I want to live and a plethora of other questions I haven't even thought about yet! I know everyone is different with how they want their life to be and I have a general idea of what I want to happen. Obviously you can't have a solid plan for your life because well because life gets in the way sometimes.

I wouldn't be so worried about it all if I didn't have such a large amount of debt from my student loans to deal with, but I do and the future is definitely something that scares me because of them. I still have no idea what it is that I want to do with my career. I'm not even sure I've started my career yet. There are so many things I want to try but I feel like I have such little time to do all of it. So the question remains:

Do we have to have it all figured out?