18 going on 80
Our society often expects us to know by age 18 what we will have accomplished in our lives by age 80. Once we graduate from high school we're expected to be able to tell friends and family who we are, where we went to go, when we will start a family, how we will succeed in life, how we will choose to serve others, how we will be successful, how we will avoid failure.
This is both unfair and unrealistic. We cannot know at age 18 where we will be by the time we are 80. We can make decisions in our lives, but ultimately those decisions will be affected by the decisions of others. I believe in hard work in making decisions that direct our future, but some things are simply not determined by our own decisions. We are impacted by the choices of others. We are impacted by events that happened and the world. There are things we cannot control. We simply cannot know by age 18 what we are going to be when we are age 80.
