It is May of 2024, and I graduated from college about three months ago. I am feeling a bit lost. I know this is cliché for someone to say who just left college and doesn’t know what they’re going to do with their life blah blah blah. But I am an English major, or should say was, and therefore, I am going to write about my feelings.
When I read Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton, I was transfixed. I read it last spring as a 22 year old college senior, feeling like my life was exciting, yes, but also deeply confusing and chaotic. I was having a severe falling out with one of my closest friends, I kissed a different boy every weekend and I had absolutely no idea what career I wanted to pursue.
That semester, I thought about Fleabag’s “I want someone to tell me what to eat” monologue frequently. She tells the sexy priest, “I want someone to tell me what to believe in. Who to vote for and who to love and how to tell them. I think I just want someone to tell me how to live my life, Father, because, so far I think I’ve been getting it wrong.” I felt like my judgement and intuition were all wrong.
While Fleabag and Dolly Alderton couldn’t help make my life any less chaotic, they did make me feel like maybe my chaos was ok.
My hope for this blog is to share this confusing, exciting, and scary time in my life. I want to write about (hopefully) finding purpose, navigating relationships, and whatever else happens to a 23 year old recent college graduate.
23 Year Old Musings 
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