NEWS FLASH: The fun’s not over

Growing up, they always tell you that college will be the best years of your life. You live your whole life awaiting the freedom and splendor of the day that you can pack your bags and leave home. When that day finally arrives, you’re thrown into the world of the unknown and gain the independence that you’ve always dreamed of. You suddenly find life to be audacious, thrilling and somewhat foolish. Life is an adventure and you discover yourself through the process.

After four years (sometimes five, depending on how much studying you actually did), college ends and life gets slightly more convoluted. What do you do now? Where do you go from here? The simple answers are the ones that make you the most agitated. “You find a job and grow up,” they say. Don’t we wish it were really that simple? Life after college is unyielding. Everything that you had planned out for yourself so intricately is not what is actually culminated. You then question everything you had ever thought, every goal and dream you ever had and then wonder, why is life so unsettling after college? Now that the fun is over, instead of being excited to age, you are wishing you could rewind time.

The time after you graduate to getting settled into your first “grown-up” job really tries you. It is the ultimate test of will power and strength because you are just beginning your life and yet there is a severe level of uncertainty of where you are going, which is utterly frightening.

Life after college is perplexing. There is no rolling out of bed and stumbling to class, tailgating and staying up until all hours of the morning six out of the seven days in a week. We hope you enjoyed it while it lasted because although four years seems like it will last forever on the day you move into your first dorm room, it surely does not. But even though you are no longer wreaking havoc all over the college town where you used to reside, what all women need to understand is that the fun is not over. You are still blossoming and have time to be youthful – you may just need to dig a little deeper to find ways to play.

If anyone knows what it feels like to be a young, 23-year-old woman, fresh out of college and working her first job, it’s us. Do we feel older than we should? Yes. Was graduating college and entering the real world depressing? Absolutely. But there is life after the football games, flip cup tournaments and walks of shame. This blog will not only prove this to be true, but it will uplift and aid you in getting through the day and this new life.

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So as we sit and plan our new super fabulous and uplifting blog, we are faced with one dilemma: What exactly do we want to be the voice of this blog? Which persona do we choose? Do we want to write about things fun and flirty and hip and confident? Or do we want to delve deeper, and explore the soft and sentimental? Or perhaps we could illustrate our awkwardness and insecurities?

The truth is, we don’t believe this blog should concentrate on any one persona. We all have multiple layers to our personalities. On Friday nights we feel wild and flirty; on Monday mornings we become professional and driven. Wednesday evenings are for America’s Next Top Model and Ben & Jerry’s on the couch (maybe). How can we pinpoint one voice to encompass our blog when we have so many? We are not one-dimensional, and we refuse to allow our blog to conform to a certain identity. We have read how-tos that insist blogs need one certain concentration or topic to gain credibility. Do we, as growing human beings, need to find one certain concentration of our personalities to gain credibility? We certainly hope not, or we will be missing out on a lot of who we are.

This blog is for women, by women, and about women (mostly). So allow us to present to you our common thread: the complexity of a woman’s mind, heart and soul. Our blog post topics and personas will change as often as a woman’s spirit. We are lots of things. Ain’t nobody gonna hold us down.