• "The whole 'what do I do with my life?' question implies that adulthood is this monolithic creature that like, you acquire your job and your spouse, and then you just ride it out until Time's winged chariot shows up. I thought this when I was younger too, and it's not our fault, because how does every single happily ever after movie end?
• 95% of romantic stories end with partners committing to each other, because everything after that is just the blank, terrifying morass of adulthood, this monotonous grind in which the only real excitement in your life is occasionally finding a truly ripe avocado at the grocery store.
• And let me submit that one of the reasons you're so terrified of figuring out what you're going to do with your life is that you think you're only going to be able to do one thing!
• You will always be figuring out what to do with your life, and you'll get to do lots of different things, and your decisions will be unmade by circumstance.
• Just like your life now, adulthood will have all this tension between idealism and practicality, and you'll have to balance competing desires. I mean, give yourself some credit!
• But I think what actually scared me about choosing whether to go to school and what to study was that each time I made a decision, my options narrowed... And there is something a little terrifying about the narrowing of those possibilities because you become aware that they will continue to narrow until you are dead.
• And that sucks, but here's the other thing, if you don't make decisions, the options still narrow! And you don't have to do just one thing--
• So here's my advice: study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you can, because that will make your life more interesting. Read a little bit everyday. But most importantly, try to surround yourself with people you like and make cool stuff with them. In the end, at least in my experience, what you do isn't going to be as nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with."

- John Green