"The Space Between Families"

"How lonely, that period between families.

At first, it just seems like an “adjustment period” to living outside your parents’ house. You’re not used to working a desk job. You’re trying to figure out how much money you should spend to make yourself feel better after the desk job, and how much everyone else is spending. How to have an “adult” weekend.

But after you’ve been doing those things for about a year — doling out your money reasonably, remembering to cook broccoli, changing your sheets at the end of each month — and everything still feels a little off, you’ll begin to realize it’s something else. It’s not that those things are actually so hard. You can manage a desk job, and remember to eat broccoli. It’s that when you come home from work after a particularly bad day, or a night out at the bar that didn’t end in your favor, it’s just you."
https://medium.com/human-parts/the-space-between-families-e20d2dd788c2

A reflection on starting out, and moving around. I sort of want to send it to all my friends scattered all over the place and preparing to scatter around again, and have a skype session and sigh melodramatically about the in-between-ness of right now.