- Make peace with your parents. Whether you finally recognize that they actually have your best interests in mind or you forgive them for being flawed human beings, you can’t happily enter adulthood with that familial brand of resentment.
- Minimize your passivity.
- Work a service job to gain some understanding of how tipping works, how to keep your cool around assholes, how a few kind words can change someone’s day.
- Recognize freedom as a 5:30 a.m. trip to the diner with a bunch of strangers you’ve just met.
- Try not to beat yourself up over having obtained a ‘useless’ Degree. Debt is hell, and things didn’t pan out quite like you expected, but you did get to go to college, and having a degree isn’t the worst thing in the world to have. We will figure this mess out, I think, probably...
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