Graduation is Approaching

I realize it's only October, but I continually get the standard question from adults, when they find out I'm graduating this year, "So, what are you going to do after graduation?" These kinds of questions have always been around.  First they ask, "Where are applying to school?" Then they wonder, "What are you majoring in?" There's always some question that people ask in which we've all formulated our generic answers for. At the moment my answer for post-graduation plans is as follows:


"I'm not really sure. Since I'm graduating early I'm going to take some time to travel because I never studied abroad.  Then we'll see where I end up and go from there.  I'm not worried about it.  I'm actually enjoy the ambiguity of the future."

The typical response I get from people after they've heard this answer is usually something along the lines of utter disbelief, confusion, and a wary, "well good luck with that." I've come to expect these responses and they don't bother at all, because I'm quite content with my answer.

HOWEVER...getting this question time and time again has really put the pressure on to think about the rest of my life. I'm fine with the future being up in the air, but what freaks me out a bit is that when I do spend time thinking about what I want to do, there are so many possibilities AND I want to do them all.

How can I possibly settle for one over another? Here are the options:

- Teach swing dancing
- Travel the world
- Work for the UNDP
           ~ Help Africa
           ~ Solve poverty...etc
- Work for a non-profit
- Open a small theatre company
- Open a shop (bakery, flowers, chocolate)
- Teach kids
- Work at a nature conservancy

This list goes on and I can't even think of everything right now.

Anyway, I'm not worried about securing a job or leading a happy life, I know those things will happen...I just don't know how I choose which of the amazing things I want to do I should do. Oh well...the list will continue to get longer and graduation will keep creeping up on me.  Life is exciting and I am grateful that my worries are over something as incredible as having the choose to pick what I want to spend my life doing...or at least part my life.  Maybe I can even do everything on the list (except solving poverty may be a stretch).