Life: Pre Adult Stages

Hello hello hello. Extremely long time no write.

I could roll out every excuse in the book as to my insane absence from actually writing my blog instead of just trolling through other people's. But, truth be told, there isn't actually a proper excuse. I, quite simply, haven't been motivated to do it. I've wanted to, but never been quite in the frame of mind to sit down and sort the jumble of words in my head into readable sentences for the whole of the www to read.

Until now.


So here I am, getting back into the world of writing something other than texts to my boyfriend (that is literally all I do, just text him constantly). I'm definitely thinking it will do me some good and give me a bit of purpose for now.

I've been going through a bit of an odd phase since leaving university. It's almost like I understand that now all my education is done, I know that I have to be an adult, but at the same time, my head just cannot (or perhaps will not) adapt.

Quick update: I'm still jobless. I'm still living at home with my mother. I'm still an occasional hermit crab that doesn't like to leave the warmth of her bed for days at a time. We persevere.

I think that everyone is allowed that period of what I'm going to call "Pre Adult Stages". At 21, I am by no means a spring chicken teenager anymore and in many aspects, I don't actually want to be. I'm ready to start doing adult things like getting a full time job and moving out, yet I can't resist the occasional sulk when my mother brings home the wrong kind of bagels.

It's an awkward phase primarily, from what I've seen, in university graduates. You feel so grown up; living away from home, having to pay rent and buy food and household items using the government's your own money. It's only when it's all over and you hit that "what next?" stage that things begin to get a little confusing.

So here I am. Almost seven months out of uni, crossing my fingers and toes as hard as I can that they hire me for that job that I had an interview for today, and still wondering "what next?"

I feel like I'm floating at the moment, and while it's not an altogether unpleasant feeling, it is strange and definitely unsatisfying. My question to you, blog readers of the internet, is this..

Have you felt like this at all? It's not necessarily a question just for uni grads, I'm only using that as an example because it's my own perspective. You may be just out of school or college or even someone having a mid life crisis, it's all relevant.

How did you deal with your post teen/pre adult stages? Are you still dealing with it?

If so, advice and all individual stories are appreciated.

I find the great thing about the internet is that it's not difficult to find someone going through something similar to you. And isn't that what the net is there for? To connect?

As I'm so behind, I'm hoping to knock out quite a few blog posts in quite a short space of time so apologies if I go a bit overboard. Until next time, my lovelies, adieu.

Talie xo