“ I’ll bet that my post-college preoccupations aren’t totally dissimilar to your own as you navigate this strange, semi-autonomous period, when you’re technically on your own but in no way feel like you qualify as as an adult; when you discover that what you thought would make you happy doesn’t and what you thought you wanted isn’t what you want at all. When you’re afraid that every wrong decision you make now is setting you up for decades of regret. When you not only don’t know who you are anymore but wonder if you ever did…. Like many of my friends, I felt firmly entrenched in the life had chosen by the time I hit my mid-twenties. After all I had been working for almost three years. To do something as drastic as quitting would mean starting all over again from zero. Instead of seeing freedom in a fresh start, I rejected it as an unacceptable acknowledgment of defeat. I felt trapped and totally out of control.
— Megan McCafferty, It’s a Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths About Life in Your Twenties (via growingupindie)
