Life.

Life. So much can be said about it in the short twenty-six years that I have been roaming the world. Although I wouldn’t say that roaming is the best word as I have barely migrated from my hometown, let alone my parents. See, that’s my problem right now. I have never lived alone or outside of my family’s home. As I lean towards turning twenty-seven, it’s high time that I change that lifestyle, by moving out. It’s more than just because of my age, but rather my mentality. In order for growth to occur in life, you have to spread your wings and I haven’t done that yet. I feel as though there has never been any room or I come up with some excuse due to the comfort zone that I have within my limits here at the house.

Although the times are truly changing, we are living in a brand new world. A generation in which we no longer move out at the age of eighteen because we cannot afford it without having to work three-five jobs to make ends meet. If we wanted to pursue a degree, that leads us further down path of debt with loans that just are outlandish and unfortunately making it even more difficult to move out. There are far too many obstacles to reaching that pivotal moment that others our age decades ago were able to reach in a quicker time. We reach a generation in which uncertainty and indecisive leads the life. There seems to be more limitations in this world in which we are trying to conquer at the same time understand. No one has experience it so thus we are writing the guidelines as we muster through, in hopes to come out on the other side alive. This was something that our parents could not prepare us for; there was no way to know a recession would knock us down a few steps back.

We have the power now to change it all. But where do we even start? Yes, we are still living at home, but we are being smart. We are not running out once the fire of the candles of our 18^th birthday cake go out, but rather realizing the world around us and the challenges that will, unfortunately, set us back a few years before gaining independence. Some have been successful in doing so, so early on and we applaud them. But the collective rest of us are unable to achieve that so early in life. We do not want to find ourselves in a sea of bills with no way to get out. No one wants to be in debt, especially at the impressible years of our twenties.  

Nevertheless, we are here and we are going to show the world that we have ability to change things. The tradition of moving out following high school and college aren’t not as clear as they once were. Instead, we are using what we have learned for a foundation of something even greater.  It is the great unknown for our generation, where the Internet is exposes everything and there truly is nowhere to hide. We are exposed and we cannot do anything about it, at least not yet. Now that we do have the internet, anything is truly possible.