The Making of a Life

You are young, uncertain, and standing at the threshold of adulthood. The world ahead is vast, complicated, and indifferent to the person you might become. Over the years, your choices will shape your education, friendships, ambitions, loves, beliefs, failures, reputation, independence, and sense of self. Teachers may inspire you. Friends may change you. Rivals may expose you. Love may transform you. Failure may humble you. Success may reveal desires you never knew you had. There is no predetermined destiny. This is your Bildungsroman: a story about becoming.