IS THIS IT?

When you are a teenager it feels like high school is the entire world. It feels like your friends, your love life (or rather there lack of), your grades are the be all and end all of your existence. Then you get into your twenties, and you think, wow that was so silly to get so caught up in high school politics, and drama and now you think that you are much wiser and therefore you won't get yourself into that type of emotional mess again. As you twenties move on you graduate university, you have zero job prospects, you probably live at home again, you have goals and aspirations but instead you work just enough to get by and drink a lot of wine on the weekends feeling hopeless. Does this sound familiar? Everyone else around you seems to have their shit figured out and they all just give you a sad little smile and say "don't worry, with some hard work you'll get there too". Now I'm not going to say that nobody has their shit figured out, it's not true, there are definitely some people out there who do have a pretty good grasp on this whole adulthood thing, I am definitely not one of them. Everyone wants a step by step guide to get them somewhere, a simple formula that so long as you do X and Y together you will be able to achieve Z. But again that's not true, yes many successful people wake up earlier in the day, many have a strict routine that they adhere to, many drink coffee without cream or sugar but doing all those things of course won't bring you success. I wish I could say something motivational and uplifting to end this but I guess you can just take solace in the fact that I feel just as lost as you.