By ERIN GATHERCOAL
Features Editor
Even the simplest questions you asked when you were little like, “Do you want apple juice or orange juice for breakfast?” led the way to middle school questions like, “Do I start playing a sport or an instrument?” After you figure those questions out, you get to high school and here come questions like, “What classes do I take?” and “Where should I go to college?” Here you are at college, and here come those scary questions about your future. Soon you’re going to have think about things like bills, mortgages, and doing your own dishes.
The future’s scary. There’s no reason to deny it. It’s scary because we don’t know what’s coming. Writer Peter F. Drucker offers the best advice: “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” If, however, you’re so afraid of the future that you can’t make a decision, you’re going to be stuck wherever you stop. As my advisor says about making a character choice in theatre: “Make a big choice. It’s better to make a wrong choice than no choice at all.” Even if a choice you pick is wrong, you will be farther along the path of life and you will have learned something. Make big choices, live life and experience everything you can, because the worst part of your life will be waking up and realizing that you missed out.