Ask and Receive: Gifts From the Universe

I have this belief that if you ask the universe for something you will receive it. It seems strange, doesn't it, putting your faith in the cosmos? It makes me wonder if the universe really is providing what I need, or if I just find a crafty way of getting what I want. Either way, putting my faith in the universe hasn't failed me yet. But I was wondering: What if there is something I need that I can't identify? What if I can't ask the universe for an answer because I haven't identified the question? Let me explain. I've felt like I've been in a little bit of a rut this semester. Maybe I'm overstressed and I'm taking on way too much for my own good. No shocker there! But either way I feel like I'm not totally in control of my daily activities. Normally I have a great handle on things and life balances beautifully, but I feel no balance. I feel like I don't have that handle on things that normally keeps my world upright and spinning beautifully. Everyone is entitled to a bad semester I guess, and let's not pretend that junior year isn't a downer, because it kind of is, but my question is why now? Why this semester? Furthermore, I feel like I'm missing something but I can't place my finger on what that something is. Maybe I just need something to be excited about; something to motivate me. Surely everyone needs motivation! Maybe I need more human interaction, or perhaps I need someone to confide in and to share my deepest thoughts with. I need a deep thinker, a philosopher. Or maybe I just need to not be stuck in this house all the time. Or maybe Fall semester just needs to end already because it makes absolutely everyone miserable. That's become pretty obvious talking to well, any college student on campus in the last two weeks. So this is my predicament. I don't know what to ask the universe for. Maybe it can just give me that motivation, or that philosopher, or that sense of adventure, or that end to Fall semester's long journey, or whatever it is that I'm missing. Or maybe I have to seek those things myself. I guess we'll just have to see.