Dear all of us 20-something-year-olds,
First of all, I think it's only fit to start this article off with a reminder to just take a breath. Many of us are in our final semesters of our college career, some of us are working hard, and others are still figuring it out. No matter what stage of your young adult life you're at, just know that we are all still so early in our adult life that it's ok to know literally nothing.
It's been drilled into our heads since before we could even pick out our own clothes that by the time you are at your age now, you should be pretty firm in what you should be doing with the rest of your life forever.
You know, know what you are majoring in, where you're moving to when you finally get your degree, what internship you're considering, who you're getting married to, what our annual income should be.
Well, while that may have worked out for some of us, that is not the case for so many others. So, I think we all need to take a break and just kinda chuckle at our childhood self. In reality, and to be frank, life happens. So what if college took a different route than you intended? So what if God threw you an unexpected curveball?
So what if you simply don't know what your next chapter holds? The best part of early adulthood is being able to redefine and reinvent yourself, no matter what point you are at.
With all of that being said, it's important to remember that no matter how hard we fall, we always have the strength to get back up. I once saw a neon green Post-It note taped to a college door frame that said: "don't quit when you're tired, quit when you're done." So, if all of us baby adults remember that phrase as we continue to trek through this mountain range called adulthood, I feel that our long nights will get shorter, the determination will grow stronger, and our destination will seem closer.
If you take just a few things from this article, let it be to sing with your best friends at the top of your lungs at 2 am on top of a table, forgive, love with all of your heart, make mistakes, make promises, make memories because you're young. We have our elder years to be snarky, so let's live out our youth to the fullest. To quote Bruno Mars, "that's how it's supposed to be; living young, wild, and free."
