In Transit: Post-Grad Brain Dump
There's nothing scarier than having the world at your fingertips.
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | ~1:09 PM EST | In a local cafe/library
The summer of 2023 was as healing as it was transitory. A sense ofโฆlooming (yeah, thatโs the word)โฆhung over everyone I knew, young and old. (But especially young.) When would the proverbial it end? When would the next it begin? What were we looking over our shoulders at in a frozen panic?
But why were we also euphoric? This summer, Iโve found that new possibilities, opportunities, and paths all carry equal parts terror and wonder.
All of a sudden, as soon as I โ along with my peers and best friends โ strode our robed bodies and tussled heads across the stage, newfound levels of freedom and autonomy and opportunity (rare crown jewels) were bestowed upon us with such reckless abandon that some of us ran with it, wildly and without hesitation, while some of us burrowed deeper and deeper into the cocoons of safety, predictability, and protection that our parents built around us, lasting since we were kids throughout well into adulthood. I often found (find) myself wondering, when would I get to immerse all senses into the wonders of my community, of the world around me? When I finally emerged from my shroud? The world, Iโve realized, will not wait.
Despite todayโs forecast of cloudy with a chance of rain (no meatballs), I sense the emergence of the needle-thin rays of sun peeking out of the grey clouds. Optimism. Otherwise known as hope, a word my father has viscerally scoffed at. Shifting his eyes sharply and disdainfully, matter-of-factly reaffirming how absurd he finds it all. โWho needs it?โ He asked incredulously.
I do! I shouted back at him, in my head of course. I need to feel the rays of sun hitting my face, and I need hope to be renewed and placed in my path. I need hope, beauty, freedom, truth, and love to favor me over fear.
(Above are some examples of the energy Iโm trying to channel this fall. lmfao I told yโall this is a brain dump)
P.S. โฆ.what on earth does one wear to a fall date?
P.P.Sโฆ.itโs normal for your dating and romantic life to not be your parentsโ businessโฆright?
My dating life isnโt my familyโs business, but ik some people whose it is lol depends on that relationship + oneโs personality (Iโm laid back & quiet. Loner)