Life Outside the Bubble

So often I heard people warn me about life outside the "bubble" once I graduated. Now I know some people strongly believe our school was a bubble, and I think in some ways it was, but I also think the degree of the bubble depended on the individual inside it. For me, life in the real world is not that different.

Probably the biggest thing that hasn't changed is the drama. I honestly believed that once I graduated all the drama that followed me like a magnet would subside. I couldn't possibly have been more wrong. Now it's just in the form of coworkers and friends who refuse to reach a suitable level of maturity.

I do miss having everyone within a half mile radius so that I could just skip down the hall and harass them for the next season of Friends or whatever the need, comment, or interest of the day was. I think, though, that the reason the transition was so easy for me was because I ended up back in my hometown with the group of friends I developed over the last three years of my college experience while working at a summer camp.

I've got to say though, I still feel like a failure for moving back home. I know it doesn't make me one, but living within the same 30 mile radius my whole life just doesn't do much for my spontaneous and adventurous nature. That said I fully plan to move to the west coast as soon as I am able.

Although I've found a recent distraction to keep me grounded a little longer. Not to mention the debt I need to eliminate.