The Family

i rent an actual house vs. i am a waitress
i have a car vs. my parents still pay insurance on it for me
i have two jobs vs. my second job is at movie gallery
i have a college degree vs. i'm not doing anything with it
i have been presented with many opportunities vs. i have no idea what i really want to do in life
i pay bills vs. i dress like a teenager
i like to paint vs. sometimes i would rather just play with legos
i am living in the adult world vs. i don't want to grow up

i am tired of being seen as immature vs. i am afraid that if i change things in my life to become more "adult," i will loose myself

i think a lot of the struggle we are feeling in the fact that there are so many options available to all of us right now when those options were never available to us in the past. when we were younger, everything was decided for us - where we went to school, what we had for lunch that day, how we wore our hair on picture day. and then after high school, it was almost a given that we would go to college - that is just what you do. and now college is over, and there isn't the next big "logical" step for us to make - everything is left completely open. jobs, marriage, where we live, who we decide to associate ourselves with ...... and that is rather intimidating. sure, the grand scope is narrowed slightly by what major we choose in college, but don't all of know tons of "adults" whose jobs have nothing to do with their college majors. so we are thrust from the netting into the great void that is adulthood.

good luck everybody.