Blossoms in the Rain

We all grow up dreaming of what we want to be. Parents and family friends ask us when we're young, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" "I want to be a dinosaur!" "I want to be a dancer!" "I want to be an astronaut!" Enthusiastic answers, beaming smiles; we know what we want.  And then we grow a little older, and our dreams change. We learn what it costs to do those dreams, and sometimes they're just not possible, and most of us switch to other dreams. By high school, our dreams and hopes for the future become more specialized. Some of us choose to be beauticians, some of us choose to be athletes, some want to be chefs, others want to get into science or medicine.  And then things just...happen. The internship fails. There's no money for schooling. A tragic injury or illness. And what you thought life would be like just never happens.  I thought I would be a wife and mother. I thought that by now I'd be married and have chil...

Adulting: a term used by young adults to describe the struggles they're having with adulthood, and also sometimes used derisively by older adults to make fun of young adults struggling with adulthood.  In the past 10 years, there has been a lot of shaming young adults, and even people into their 30s, for struggling with doing things previous generations seemed to do with ease. Things like getting a job, doing grocery shopping, making meals, mending clothes, house keeping, handling money, and a whole host of other things that make up the sphere of adult responsibilities have proven to be very difficult for the current generations of young adults. And I'm here to say that that shame is not justly earned. Yes, the previous generations were able to do it, but they were in a very different time and situation than we are today, and I'm going to explain several reasons why it's so difficult now. 1. The past two generations have been the most underprepared generations in millen...