Does anyone truly have everything together and to those who say they do are they just trying to put on a brave face for the world? As a society, we look down on those who don't have everything lined up and ready to face the world. I’m twenty-two and I am still figuring out how to deal with life and how exactly to “Adult”.
It’s so hard to figure out because in high school they tell you to figure out your career your life, have a plan in college they tell you to apply for internships and that if you work hard that you will get a job. Then you graduate look around and 6 months go by a year and you say to yourself “What the HELL!” I did what everyone told me to do I got good grades I did the internship and I have been perfecting my resume for what feels like forever and yet, I don’t have that job that they told me I would have.
I am working a minimum wage job that is giving me experience but any job that would work for me wants so much knowledge so I am not sure what to do. In my understandings trying to deal with the struggles of getting through todays job market with the insane standards they have can make anyone in their twenties cringe with horror.
Sometimes I feel like my life will never be together, that I will always be struggling to find where I fit in. Then a firework goes off in my brain and I refocus, just because I see some people from my old high school married, having kids and a house doesn’t mean they have any clue what they are doing either… everyone has their personas that they show online but, they are all mostly half-truths.
Being in your twenties is hard, and in todays harsh reality some of us feel like we must be fully put together in our twenties, but that is just not the case. Who cares if you don’t know what you really want to do yet, who cares if you’re not married with 2.5 kids and have a house with a white picket fence I certainly don’t.
Living in todays society we feel pressured to have our lives completely put together by the time we are out of college, but I don’t care about todays society or how my generation is viewed. We live in a screwed-up century where people expect more out of someone than they can physically give where we put these ridiculous standards on ourselves because that is how we perceive others want us to be like, but the truth is; NO ONE KNOWS WHAT IS GOING ON!!
Now, could I be wrong, absolutely because I will tell you my truth I have no idea what I am doing I cannot for the life of me figure out how to file my taxes, I don’t know the first thing about figuring out a W-2 or a tax return, changing my oil is like doing calculus to me IMPOSSIBLE and don’t even get me started on setting up a retirement fund or how to apply for a car loan or house loan.
Truthfully… I am confused and adulting is hard, all I want is to have a respectable job to have a wife, and 2 kids and 4 to 5 dogs in a nice house, but for now that is overwhelming and confusing to me. I have a realistic goal though to get a new car have a nice apartment and get out of debt.
