You're probably wondering why I thought the best time to write a blog was slap bang in the middle of writing the most important essays of my life. Procrastination is the answer. Procrastination that leads to me thinking about what the hell I'll be doing this time next year.
The term 'quarter life crisis' was drawn to my attention recently through various BuzzFeed articles and the brilliant Instagram account 'quarterlifepoetry' (go follow her- very funny)! It seems people around my age, that may just be finishing/or have finished uni, are suddenly realising they will have to get a real life job and get their acts together- no more 'going up on a Tuesday' for us!
We're probably all familiar with those who are a little bit older telling us to chill out and stop worrying about the future. However this concept is quite hard to accept when that guy from school just tweeted 'just got a job for next year at the most prestigious banking firm in the whole world' or the girl from your course that uploads her #ootd to insta from her internship at Vogue magazine. Yeah cheers for that guys! Cos when I was reading about all your achievements I was probably watching House of Cards in bed eating cold pasta. This then most likely led to me freaking out and rearranging my CV to make myself sound marginally better. The next step probably involved me trying to start those essays that loom over everything I do, and getting progressively more stressed about how I'm definitely going to fail my degree. This, my friends, is essentially a quarter life crisis.
However I am here to spread some relief to those suffering from this awful experience. In one of my usual breakdowns, my flatmate (go Hannah D!) provided me with the best, if not slightly cheesy, metaphor for our lives right now. We are caterpillars. Yes that's right. We are caterpillars and one day we will be beautiful butterflies that are totally in control of our own lives but for now this is the period of the caterpillars life where they're thinking WTF am I doing in this cocoon?!
If that image still didn't just change your whole life (for god knows what reason!) just remember that while your CV may not be bursting with wonderful, life altering internships you've definitely achieved more than you think you have. For me personally, uni has been the greatest experience and I know I have changed so much over these past few years (side note: change is good, means you're growing). So if all you've done is made great friends and enjoyed yourself whilst adding another qualification to the list isn't such a bad thing. So stop stressing and remember that...
