magnitude - by Molly Mielke - Milky
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August 2024
Many of my similarly-aged friends graduated college recently. Having finished school over three years ago (long story), I wish I’d expected how painful and overwhelming adult life starts off feeling. I have vivid memories from around this time of walking around aimlessly late at night, wearing sunglasses to hide my tear-stained face and unmistakable look of utter lostness. Looking back, I realize now how much of the pain I experienced came from the crushing mismatch in expectations between what I’d promised myself adult life would look like and what it ended up actually feeling like.…
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