December 2007 July 28, 2009
Posted by bittersweetm in Post Grad Diary.Tags: diary, post grad
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Graduation… Oh lordy. After four and a half years, I was graduating from college. It was the most exciting and yet the most heartbreaking day. I wasn’t ready to leave it all behind, there was still so much more I wanted to experience from college. But it was over. The excitement was there, knowing that I had achieved a Bachelor’s degree and finished college. The real world was coming… an unknown that was filled with anticipation, excitement, and life. I had no job, no prospects, and no idea what I was going to do. The only thing I did know was that I was moving to Washington D.C. to begin a new life. I was taking a chance on my life, moving to a new city where I only knew two people, with no job and an apartment I had found in four days. It was the risk of a lifetime, and I was diving in head first.
My Generation July 6, 2009
Posted by bittersweetm in Opinion, Post Grad Diary, Social Commentary.Tags: depression, generations, quarterlife crisis, veterans, war
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My generation’s young adult years, the years that start to form who we are, are being shaped and molded by issues we (much less anyone else) never thought we’d have to face.
An economic depression that has crushed our dreams of what we thought how our career, jobs, and life would begin. A depression that has taken an entire generation by surprise and left us unsure of what to do, how to find a job, and how to build a life.
A war that has left us with young veterans, whose minds will never be right. Who would rather go back to the war, than to live their lives out. A war that has left my generation with grief, sorrow, and an explicit knowledge of what it means to know someone in war, someone who has died in action, injured in combat … a generation that knows what it means to kill someone or be killed and how to engage in combat.
A “quarter-life crisis” … seriously? That is just ridiculous, but true. It sounds absurd, but it makes sense. My generation is dealing with this stage of not knowing what to do with life, having been raised with the knowledge that a degree would get you what you wanted, and to always seek out what makes us happy. This has left us forever seeking happiness, allowing the simplest thing to make us unhappy and topple our entire world. This has given a society that is now over-saturated with degrees, making the competition crippling.
This along with everything else that normal young adult years bring … and we are a generation fucked. For the time being. We’ll figure a way out, every generation always figures it out eventually.
The real question is, how will this affect my generation and who we become? How will this affect the generation that we give birth to? Our generation was shaped by the teachings and ideals of our parents, and so will the generation we bring to the world. I guess only time will tell.