Find Your Place

People ask me to figure it out, my entire future

I look at them and smile, knowing nothing else

Nice salary, massive house, and someone to love

I wish I had all of those, but I am still too far away.

Life is confusing, and so I stay up all night, mostly

Trying to figure things out, failing to do it even at 24

Will I ever have everything figured out? I don’t know

The present suffocate me, but I fear the future to come

So I continue to live this life, the one I don’t love much

Hoping one day, I know everything, like all my friends

It’s okay to fall behind; I need to remind myself each day

So I don’t suffocate under all these expectations as well

Take my time so that fewer regrets will come in future

I might be overthinking, but it’s okay to do that, I guess

People ask me to find my place in the world; I know I should

However, for now, let me find what I love and learn to laugh 

Someday, I am sure I will have it figured out like others

Have someone to love and have luxuries I don’t have now

Until then, I will do my best, and do things that make me happy

I don’t want to waste my present looking for a faraway future