Often—okay, always—former Seventeen EIC Atoosa Rubenstein finds herself pondering the time when she came to a crossroads in her life and decided to free herself from her "corporate sugar daddy" and strike out on her own to start her fabulous new [TK]. Today she wanders down memory lane again and realizes what really inspired her to leave her cushy job: German poet Rainer Maria Rilke!

I felt very unsure about my own future last year. For the first time in my career, I wasn't enjoying myself anymore, yet I wasn't exactly sure what I wanted to do next. And on top of it, I was so confused as to why I was suddenly at a loss for answers. Then I came across the following quote from Rilke: "Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them."

A very foreign language indeed.