Meaning Making

“I've been in this city for two years and I still don't have anyone I could call if something went wrong.”

“I got the grade I needed but it doesn't feel like anything, and that worries me more than getting a bad grade would have.”

“I keep buying things to fill my apartment and it's starting to look nice from the outside and feel the same on the inside.”

“I'm watching her life on Instagram and I don't even know her that well and yet I feel genuinely behind somehow.”

“I used to know what I wanted my life to look like and somewhere in my thirties that image just got blurry.”

“I'm starting to realize I built my whole identity around achievement and now that I'm between things I don't know who I am.”

“I've been retired for eight months and I don't know what people mean when they say they fill their time.”

“I've been putting off going to the doctor for something I noticed and I think I'm afraid of what having a name for it would mean.”

“I went to my college reunion and came home feeling not nostalgic but confused about the choices that led from there to here.”

“My kids don't need me the same way they used to and I know that's the whole point but I don't know who I am in the gap.”

“I graduated and everyone acted like something was beginning and all I felt was the absence of structure I used to complain about.”