I'm sure most of you can agree with me when I say that I couldn't help but think of whether or not I was included in one of their surveys. I personally can state that I, too, fall under this apparent group of not-quite adults. One of the more prominent ideas that stood out to me were the five milestones occurring at ages much less than what we know now is normal. Why? Because in my family, not one person twenty-five years old or younger has graduated college, or gotten married. And for families like those in the 1970s to have already began forming before the age of twenty-three now seems near impossible.
But honestly, is it even a bad thing at all? You know, for young adults such as ourselves to bloom late or shoot right back? It isn't. On the other hand, it definitely isn't great either. Nearly every person roughly the same age that I know don't even understand exactly what they want to do with their major, neither have they secured a job financially supporting them enough to land them their own place. And I could think of many reasons why, big or small. Like in high school, how many of us had a class related to what we wanted to go in life? Or enough money to even consider college or marriage? I sure as hell didn't even come close. But like I always say, just like the idea of the American Dream, the life of one in college is already confusing enough for an entire lifetime.
I came across this image on Tumblr a while back and it's relate-able in more ways than just education. Think about it.
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