Every day I am asked the same questions by the same people. “What do you want to do with your life? Have you started thinking about college? Have you applied for a summer job? What career do you plan to have in the future?” The questions go on and on. I feel like I am being suffocated by parents, teachers, and friends constantly nagging me about my future. To be asked so many questions that I just don’t have the answer to at only the age of sixteen is frustrating. It’s so hard not knowing what I want to do with my life. I, along with most teenagers, am expected to go to school, maintain good grades, while keeping up with extracurriculars and looking for a job. While I’m doing all of this I should be planning where I might be going to college along with what my future career will be. I can’t stand all the conversations about it yet it is what is most important at this time of my life right now. I need to be thinking about all of this, but it’s so hard when all I do is make myself believe that I am not good at anything. It’s difficult to stay confident and believe that my future will work out for me when  everyone around me seems to have a direction and I don’t even have a path that I could follow. My options are so limited, the roads I could take seem so narrow that I can’t think of anywhere to go or anything to do. The idea that everything I do while I am a teenager will affect my future is down right terrifying. Before the age of eighteen I’m expected to do so much. It was much easier when the future seemed so far away. Now it seems as if I can blink once and I’ll be graduating high school. Blink twice and I’ll be a college graduate. Stress, anxiety, worrying; these are the feelings I hate the most and the feelings I have the most of. I want to be at the part in my life where I am settled down and I know what my future looks like and all I have to worry about is what I have to wear on my date with my potential husband. I will be at that point in my life one day, I know it, but to me it seems that I will struggle a lot on the journey to get to this picture perfect place in my life. In the end, I know I’ll be okay. I have faith in the fact that I can build myself a future. I have this faith in me, but my lack of confidence sits on this faith most of the time.