I don’t completely remember where I got this infographic… it’s been saved on my desktop for so long (but I think Facebook had something to do with it). But I look at this image almost twice a week now because I am currently in that crazy scribble in the middle of 20 and 30.

My 22nd birthday was this past Sunday and instead of being excited for my birthday like I normally am, I was kind of scared to be honest. 22? 22 is old. I know people who are engaged, getting married, with real jobs and here I am still taking my last Maymester class with no idea what I’m going to be doing once this summer is over.

I talked to my mom about it and it’s a weird feeling. For my entire life since I was 5, come September it was time to go back to school and that was the routine. Once I hit college we went back in late August and that made September an even more “scholarly” time of the year. But this year, since I’m not going to grad school, I won’t have that. I could be unemployed in September still searching for a job. But this image reminds me that even though I may be wandering a little bit right now it’s going to be okay, because I’m not necessarily lost. It may just take me a little bit longer to find my footing in the real world than it has for some of my peers.