Existentialist crisis - a time where recent college graduates experience a sense of disorientation towards their new life-standing in an apparently meaningless absurd world.
Citing a statistic that I completely made-up for the sake of this post, 75% of recent college graduates experience a vacant and lost feeling after they are released from the clutches of academia. No, this void cannot be filled with frosting and chocolate (but it tastes delicious, so who cares!). It can only be filled with a new purpose of life -- finding a new purpose in life.
This, my friend, is a whole new world (cue Aladdin song and flying carpet) for the recent grad.
Up until the graduation day, life has had a plan -- to graduate college. Now that this seemingly impossible task is accomplished, there is nothing really left on life’s agenda (except for some sleep, and Netflix binging.)
With the passing of one day, the next chapter in life has begun. The transition, for some, is disconcerting because the majority of one’s existence has been leading up to this very moment of graduating college, and wham-bam-hippopotamus its over.
Once the fact that the graduation actually happened begins to sink in, unsurety about the future begins to grow (this experience is usually coupled with colorful statements such as: oh shit, fuck, or I don’t want to be an adult.) But, that is the amazing thing because after 20-something years fighting for this suspiciously flimsy piece of paper, there is now only one master of your fate -- you.
That, my friend, is not the least bit meaningless.
Damn Skippy.
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