You're young, you're healthy and strong, and you can reach deep for strength. When we get older and things that have always been there for us astonishingly start to disappear, it can get more intimidating to think about walking the path. A lot of people, young and old, think you have to stop listening and walking and cut down some of those trees and build a nice, strong, safe place to stay. But the only real danger to you is not to start listening in the first place, maybe just stay in some nice, safe house someone else already built. Nobody wants to take the wrong path.
Nobody wants to end up lost.
But your center will always be there. The right path may be different for you later but it will always be there for you to find unless you think you don't have to stop and listen for it anymore. Every day it keeps coming back, every day you can listen again, every day the mockingbird sings. Neither we, or your friends and family, or America are nearly as good at putting up false signposts as you yourself are. You may think that once you get there you'll automatically stay there, and stop taking time to go back to your center.