Graduation
from high school and college is a bittersweet experience. Well, high
school was more sweet, and college more bitter. I was definitely ready
to graduate high school and as equally not ready to graduate college.
Both are supposed to be exciting new steps into the world, but when I
graduated college I was newly single and unemployed. Despite how
daunting this seemed at the time, there were some advantages.
Every aspect of my life was an adventure. I was going to a new place with new people. (Fine I was just going back to summer camp, but I did end up moving somewhere new half way into the summer). I didn’t know anything that was going to happen. New friends, new faces, new town, nothing was holding me back. Everything was exciting and terrifying all at the same time.
No long distance. It’s great to have a support system when you enter the “real world” but let’s be real, long distance relationships suck. If yours doesn’t, chances are you don’t really care about the person you’re with. I have a wonderful friend who has made her long distance relationship work, so it’s definitely possible. But for those of you entering the next step of your life unattached, use this to your advantage. It’s nice not to be limited to a geographic region or be states away from the one you love.
So single students of the class of 2012, whether you’re graduating high school or college, enter the next step of your life unattached, and unfazed by anything. Fly your single flag proudly, and I hope you find that someone special within a sixty mile radius of you! If not, welcome to the club, make sure you’ve packed your best sass.
To paraphrase the younger brother of my friend, “My life is too much of an unwritten book to be writing in pen.” Teenage wisdom at its best.
Exceptions to the rule: If you and your significant other are moving to the same place. This doesn’t necessarily include going to college together. Some couples stay together and actually end up happily married ever after. I know a wonderful couple who survived the transition of high school to college, and I am thrilled to be a bridesmaid in their wedding. But be warned high school sweethearts, IT’S HARD. So godspeed and god bless. If it’s going to happen, you’ve got to be willing to work. And let’s be real, who wants to work in college? At 18, working at a relationship was not in my emotional capacity; I only had time for academia and my friends and my relationship status showed the fruits of that lack-of-labor.
If you are moving with your significant other after college, congrats! I wish you the best, and out of all the other couples out there, you’ve got the best shot. Just be sympathetic with all us single twenty somethings, we may seem bitter, but we’re just jealous you beat that 60:40 ratio. Why didn’t I go to a tech school? #liberalartsproblems
Every aspect of my life was an adventure. I was going to a new place with new people. (Fine I was just going back to summer camp, but I did end up moving somewhere new half way into the summer). I didn’t know anything that was going to happen. New friends, new faces, new town, nothing was holding me back. Everything was exciting and terrifying all at the same time.
No long distance. It’s great to have a support system when you enter the “real world” but let’s be real, long distance relationships suck. If yours doesn’t, chances are you don’t really care about the person you’re with. I have a wonderful friend who has made her long distance relationship work, so it’s definitely possible. But for those of you entering the next step of your life unattached, use this to your advantage. It’s nice not to be limited to a geographic region or be states away from the one you love.
So single students of the class of 2012, whether you’re graduating high school or college, enter the next step of your life unattached, and unfazed by anything. Fly your single flag proudly, and I hope you find that someone special within a sixty mile radius of you! If not, welcome to the club, make sure you’ve packed your best sass.
To paraphrase the younger brother of my friend, “My life is too much of an unwritten book to be writing in pen.” Teenage wisdom at its best.
Exceptions to the rule: If you and your significant other are moving to the same place. This doesn’t necessarily include going to college together. Some couples stay together and actually end up happily married ever after. I know a wonderful couple who survived the transition of high school to college, and I am thrilled to be a bridesmaid in their wedding. But be warned high school sweethearts, IT’S HARD. So godspeed and god bless. If it’s going to happen, you’ve got to be willing to work. And let’s be real, who wants to work in college? At 18, working at a relationship was not in my emotional capacity; I only had time for academia and my friends and my relationship status showed the fruits of that lack-of-labor.
If you are moving with your significant other after college, congrats! I wish you the best, and out of all the other couples out there, you’ve got the best shot. Just be sympathetic with all us single twenty somethings, we may seem bitter, but we’re just jealous you beat that 60:40 ratio. Why didn’t I go to a tech school? #liberalartsproblems
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