Approaching life after college…
As far as milestones go, today was a big one. College graduation. The speeches, greeting cards, and naïve undergraduates all claim that today is the day that your real life begins; as if we’ve been in a random spiral headed for collision with the real world. You can argue that this is true, but I’ll only buy it in the most literal sense: we’re now forced to accept full time jobs and begin some attempt at self maintenance.
Like many fresh grads, I’m gazing at a blank canvas. There is no longer a schedule of classes or even the temporary summer job. It is just me, and the future, staring each other down. Now the standard plan for the remainder of my life would go something like this: score an entry level job, meet a suitable man, climb the corporate ladder - but only until I get pregnant and/or am proposed to, at which point it’s safe to get pregnant! After that, life just becomes a suburban blur.
