"i hardly saw anyone aside from my coworkers, i spent my evenings either sleeping at the office or watching shows in my room, and my life essentially froze for six months (i think this is not an uncommon new grad experience?)"
Thank you for writing this because this is actually so real. In the first couple months of working I felt incredibly isolated and could not get myself to initiate hangouts with friends despite living in NYC. I always knew adulting was going to be hard, but it was hard in a different way than I thought it was going to be. I picked up adult things fairly quickly (401(k)s, getting a doctor, etc) - that was not hard. What was hard was to find the energy to do anything other than the adult things. I'd like to say I'm better at it now 1.5 years later but truthfully speaking I don't think I'll ever have enough energy for the not adult things again as if it was college
Im honored to witness ur dance journey and social dance will train ur muscles and brain to not freeze
Separately… is it not also you that formed the friendships that pulled you out? Can you trust yourself to form more, or to find new ways in the present/future to jolt into motion?
I am afraid of something similar and maybe it is cope but have started to try and believe that I am someone that can always find a way, or make one
"i hardly saw anyone aside from my coworkers, i spent my evenings either sleeping at the office or watching shows in my room, and my life essentially froze for six months (i think this is not an uncommon new grad experience?)"
Thank you for writing this because this is actually so real. In the first couple months of working I felt incredibly isolated and could not get myself to initiate hangouts with friends despite living in NYC. I always knew adulting was going to be hard, but it was hard in a different way than I thought it was going to be. I picked up adult things fairly quickly (401(k)s, getting a doctor, etc) - that was not hard. What was hard was to find the energy to do anything other than the adult things. I'd like to say I'm better at it now 1.5 years later but truthfully speaking I don't think I'll ever have enough energy for the not adult things again as if it was college
Im honored to witness ur dance journey and social dance will train ur muscles and brain to not freeze
Separately… is it not also you that formed the friendships that pulled you out? Can you trust yourself to form more, or to find new ways in the present/future to jolt into motion?
I am afraid of something similar and maybe it is cope but have started to try and believe that I am someone that can always find a way, or make one
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