Imagine this: it's August, you're nervous about going back to school next month. You plan for all the school supplies and first day of school clothing that you are going to buy for that coming day, then all of a sudden, it hits you: you do not have to worry about any of those things anymore. You graduated and you do not have to go back to school anymore. Everything from school is now nothing more than a distant memory and you now have to enter the real world. All of your younger friends are getting ready for school while you have to continue your normal routine in September.

Believe me, I understand how you are feeling. I just graduated from college this past winter and it just hit me recently that I do not have to go back to school in September. I do not have a schedule that I am going to have to look back on and remember every week until finals week or scheduling organization obligations and events that you would like to go to. I am not going to see my friends again until December and most of my other friends that graduated live too far away for me to see them regularly.

Not to mention the fact that my schedule will mostly consist of the same things and there will be no more variety in my daily routine anymore. It will just be work, come home, apply to jobs, work, come home, apply to more jobs, repeat. My schedule is no longer filled with excitement or adventures anymore and I have to keep looking and put in effort to have fun adventures with the people in my life. In fact, our schedules will be so different that keeping in contact with them will become a struggle.

This is a normal feeling to have. There are lots of people out there that are confused about what the future holds for them and how they will adjust to not going to school anymore. I am fully aware that the lack of variety in my routine is going to get boring for a while and eventually I am going to have to find ways to spice it up myself. I am fully aware that I will get bored on some days and that is completely okay. Sometimes, days will get that like that. I just have to find my own ways to beat that.

The feeling of not going back to school is going to be a weird feeling, and that transition can be incredibly hard for a lot of people. I am here to tell you that you are not alone. Not everyone transitions into adulthood super quickly or easily, so you should not be discouraged for any reason. You can ask any adult in your life how they felt when they finished school, and there is a good chance that they felt the same way too. This is a weird feeling, but you will adjust. You will find a job. You will find your own life.