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After Graduation
College Crisis: You’re Mediocre, Then Stop Working So Hard
I graduated then it hit me, I was mediocre compared to my peers
I recently graduated from college. My early 20’s consisted of the hectic student lifestyle and anxious job hunting in quick succession.
It takes time to finally wind down; something about the unrelenting hard work that consumes your being. It took me 7 months with a 2-month long stay-at-home to cut out white noises, breathe, and finally think clearer.
What’s the problem?
No. I’m not here to attempt to answer life’s hardest questions like purpose in life. I suppose this question is fit for the quarter-life crisis, but I’d like to not focus on that. Instead, I am eternally grateful for what I have: a full happy family that, though worse-off financially than the middle-class, is rich in everything else.
“I thought to myself, my life is pretty mediocre compared to my peers.”
Perhaps it is this gnawing knowledge that I am financially unprepared in an expensive city that I start to mellow. I thought to myself, my life is pretty mediocre compared to my peers.
