Everybody says that young adulthood is the most exciting and fun part of one’s life. It’s undoubtedly the formative and definitive decade of your life, your financial capabilities get determined, most probably and preferably your most crucial personal relationships will also be determined.
Along with being put in a whole different set up, with nobody telling you what to do, everyone riding on their own boats, hurdling different mayhems all while hoisting their futures.
There’s such diabolical social pressure on young adults to have it all together, to have all the fun they possibly can and also be rigorously hardworking, dedicated and resilient versions of themselves.
Between all of these social expectations, even more strengthened nowadays thanks to social media, we forget that it truly is the first time we get to choose. There’s no longer a rigid school system monitoring you, parents have started to somewhat believe in our decisions. Instead of being an exact replica of who you admire, or a clone conjoined from borrowed personalities and attires, try being who you want to be. This is the time to unapologetically be ourselves. This is when we explore our interests and pursuits. To be stagnated at the same pursuit you realized ten years ago is not the best choice. To grow in your very own progression following no societal or economic rulebook, for as long as we can, is what really makes our newfound freedom exciting.
Balancing dreams with reality; stargazing, capturing night skies, while sipping your second red bull or cup of coffee or nurturing your writing and sketching in the middle of college end sems, that is what real young adulthood looks like without Instagram filters and ai captions. You haven’t figured it all out and you will be constantly figuring it out.
This is not the time to forsake our personalities to fit into preformed molds, right now is when we design our own upcoming personas and molds. We all have those jittery, restless, thunder-striking moments of inspiration, when ideas and creative impulse come in unannounced. Following them might sting the framework we have put ourselves in but harnessing that energy instead of shaking it off with laziness is when we actually ace our youth.