You don’t have to know your whole calling at seventeen. Do the next right thing and keep listening.

Direction gets found by walking, not by deciding in advance. At seventeen you have almost none of the information you would need to pick a whole life, and the people who seem certain are usually just louder. What you can see is the next right thing, which is a much smaller and much more answerable question. The rest comes into view later, in pieces.

Pick only the next decision this week, not the next decade. Choose the class, the shift, the conversation in front of you, and keep paying attention to what you are drawn toward.