“For human beings, exploring is in our nature.”
Popular Youtube channel Shots of Awe closes with this piece of advice, and ain’t it the truth. Perhaps if you are reading this right now, you like myself, are a young twenty-something going through that stage of your life called emerging adulthood.
Emerging adulthood is a new stage that never used to exist. Back in the “good old days,” people didn’t get the opportunity to find themselves. They didn’t explore their surroundings, travel the globe, date a series of losers, have 25 jobs by 25, or “feel lost.”
Instead, they graduated from high school, went to college (if they were lucky), and usually married somebody from their hometown.
However, with this new burst of life we call emerging adulthood, we now have the opportunity to be lost and you bet your ass us Millennials are going to suck the life from this beautifully chaotic thing we call “losing it.”
So if you feel uncertain, if you think you’re about to fly off the deep end, if you’re more lost and conflicted than anybody you know, congratulations, you are already there:
The video leaves us with the important message of how necessary it is to be lost. The best part of finding yourself is the journey we go through to get to the destination, rather than experiencing the actual destination itself.
[Featured Image Credit: Shots of Awe]