I’d say that graduating college is a lot like falling off a really big cliff. One day, you’re overlooking the world. You’re happy, on top, and filled with all this potential and inspiration to do big things. Life is pretty good on top of the cliff; it’s comfortable and familiar. You worked for years to get to the top and now that you’re here, you never want to leave. But people keep telling you that once you get off the cliff, life is even better. It’s more interesting, exciting, and full of so much greatness that you can’t imagine until you experience it. What they forget to say is that the falling part sucks. A lot.
So I woke up on the Monday after graduation expecting a lot more out my post graduate life than what I actually got. Since I’m already going with the falling off the cliff visual, let’s add another. Imagine that you’re told you are going to receive the best meal of your life (I’m obviously hungry right now). You’re told this amazing meal is awaiting you. However, you have to leave the feast of food you’re currently enjoying. You’re hesitant because the feast before you is amazing. But this promise of the best meal ever is enticing. So you leave your amazing meal and go out in search of this other meal. But now you’re told that you aren’t going to get it right now. You’ll have to wait for it. You’ll have to wait and settle for this other meal, which isn’t very good and tastes as bad as it looks.
I woke up on Monday and discovered that postgraduate life is a lot like that disappointing meal. I’m waiting on this amazing life that I’m promised and for the time being, I have to settle for this other meal, which is basically the same four things on a cycle: sleeping, eating, drinking, watching Netflix. Now don’t get me wrong. I love doing all four of those things without having anywhere to be. But had you asked me before graduation what I was going to be doing after college, I wouldn’t have told you I would be drinking copious amounts of wine and sleeping a lot.
So as we come to end of week one of being out of college and I realize that what lies before me is a long stretch of road and I’m just at the beginning of the race (I really need to stop it with all these cliff, food, and now running visuals). So this blog came to me the other day while commuting to work and hopefully it’ll provide some much needed reflection about what is going to happen over the next few months as I navigate this postgraduate journey.
While this post is mostly a negatively view of my life, I am optimistic. I know it will “get better” (for lack of a better phrase), and honestly, life isn’t too bad right now. Drinking and eating until I sleep for 12 hours and then watch Netflix for another 12? Life could be worse. Thank God it isn’t. Just not quite what I was expecting.
So for now, I’ll settle for this unscheduled, unplanned adventure that will get me somewhere someday. #onedayatatime #theressomepostivity
Also, let’s talk about how the song: Ain’t It Fun by Paramore is actually written about the life of college graduates. But maybe that’s just me…anyways, here’s a link to the lyric video so you can make your own judgment. All I’m saying is that some of the phrases are very similar. “Ain’t it fun living in the real world?” is the prime example…Anwyays, ignore me. I will literally find meaning in anything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izx9ADLjgbM
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