Whether you like it or not, for most people college is one of the best periods of their
life.
Its the place where you make a lot of friends, party and finally have a little bit more freedom
after spending 12 years in that high school where you can only do what you are told.
Of course, it has its cons as well, especially when you have a lecture early in the morning,
and there is no one to you wake up.
Back in school your mom use to do that but here in college you keep hitting that snooze
button and when you finally wake up, you are like: I am late anyway, what's the point of
going! so you fall back to sleep.
I understand that life can be a little bit frustrating when you have to study, work and
somehow manage to survive but the weirdest part is what happens after graduation.
You have two types of people on graduation day.
The ones who are excited.
Finally, after so many years of education, we are moving to the next stage in our life.
On the other side, there are people who absolutely don't give a damn as if its just another day.
They are just waiting for the ceremony (graduation) to end so that they can get back to sleep.
But, in general, a week or two after graduation, everyone is stuck with the same question.
Now what?
You wanted to graduate as soon as possible but now you have absolutely no idea what to
do with your life.
All these ideas and dreams that you had in your mind back in college don't seem that
realistic now, you no longer even feel motivated to pursue them.
I get it, I went through the exact same thing.
You don’t know what to do with your life.
Everything you think about doesn’t seem inspiring.
You look around and you don't want to end up like everyone else working 9 to 5 and be
miserable for the next 20 or 30 years.
At the same time, you don't have an alternative option.
And it's not entirely your fault.
For over 20 years, someone was planning on behalf of you.
The only decision you had to make after school is what to major in.
Once you are done with that, college takes care of the rest.
You know how exactly will go the next 4 years of your life.
You have an end goal in front of you and step by step plan.
You might not like it but you don't feel bad about it because everyone else follows it
as well.
Even if you are a bad student, you don't feel bad because, at the end of the day, you are
all on the same ship heading in the same direction.
As it has been in school.
You didn't even decide if you want to go to school, your parents have decided that for
you and like everything else, you gotta follow the plan that's in front of you.
Suddenly after over 20 years of someone else taking care of you, they give you a piece
of paper that they call a certificate and expect you to plan for yourself.
It supposes be to a good thing but leads it to a long cycle of depression because you
have absolutely no idea what on earth you should do with your life.
With me, it lasted a couple of months before I figured out what to do with my life but
I have seen people spending years on that.
You will try to find the ideal job that you have in mind, but you most likely won't find
it.
Every company that you passionately want to work in will probably reject you.
The idea of becoming an entrepreneur and being independent will definitely cross your mind,
but when you check your bank account (student debt), you will change your mind.
At some point, you will decide let me get whatever job I can because I have bills to
pay.
Once I figure out what I really wanna do in life.
I will leave the job and my pursue my dream.
But you will quickly find a comfort zone and might never leave it.
You will be busy with day to day things and won't find the time to be depressed again
about what to do with your life.
So no matter how bad you get depressed after college, don't be fooled by that comfort zone,
because whatever you decide to do then will have a long-lasting effect on the rest of
your life.
And if you have already done that, it's never too late to leave that comfort zone and give
it another shot.
So, good luck!