It's easy to think that by the time you finish high school you must have figured out what you want to do with the rest of your life. Or that because you didn't have it figured out by the time you left high school you will never really know what you want to do. Maybe that's because school only teaches us right/wrong, or linear thinking - that there is only one possible path through life, so you better have figured out the right path to be on as early as possible, or it's too late. Life can happen like a good conversation. One thing leads to the next. You can't possibly know what is at point c before you have reached point b. Maybe to reach point c you first must fail at point b. Maybe you would never have arrived at point c had you not failed at point b. That's another thing school doesn't teach us - that failure is ok. At school there is a pass/fail mentality. Black or white. Pass is good, fail is bad. Failure is part of life, yet school does not prepare you for that or teach you that. Failure is never all bad. Looked at the right way and with the right attitude, failure can be an important stepping stone to the next thing. If failure is never all bad, then at least one good thing can be gleaned from every failure. Failure can at least teach you not to make the same mistake again.