The other day I was looking at something on my phone and saw this picture with a quote on it that said “Remember when you thought people in their 20’s were adults… now we’re all in our 20’s just kinda fumbling around bumping into things looking for food."
The accuracy of this quote is unreal. Whenever you’re younger, you count down to when you are a certain age or when you leave for college, but once you hit that age and actually do leave, it all seems surreal. Now being on your own and going through college, it almost feels like you have to have your life together and have everything figured out.
It is OK to not have your life together.
Life happens. Life can be very unpredictable and throw wrenches in plans and change the future. School happens. Not everyone is perfectly smart and will get 100’s or a 4.0 in their semester. Just because you failed one test doesn’t mean that you won’t get that dream job. Brush it off and keep going.
Especially if you’re in your early 20’s, you don’t have to have your future planned out piece by piece. This is the time to make mistakes and learn from them. This is the time to look back and laugh at staying up all night with your friends that turn into family. This is the time to where we start discovering who we are, and who we are supposed to be. That doesn’t mean that this needs to be figured out by the time you graduate, there will always be time.
Yes, we are growing up and starting to mature more while only being a few years from being in the real world, but this doesn’t mean that we have to have everything figured out. No one is expecting us to. It’s OK not to have your life together and feel a little lost at times; it’s only a part of life and a stepping stone to figuring out the future.
