Real Life Sucks.

At some point, after you're out of highschool, or college, you're bound to realize a few things. The things you realize will, naturally, depend on your expectations, your situation, and your previous situations, but I think these cover the basics.

A) Paying bills is hard. Having an amount of companies that demand money on a scheduled basis, well, that gets hard to keep up with. It gets harder and scarier the more that there are, but even just a few demanded payments of your hard-earned money are rough.

B) No one told you it would be this way.

C) Finding a good place to live, a good job to work, and good people to spend time with is hard. It seems so easy, right? If it was/is for you, I want to say, "Just you wait..." but maybe you're one of the lucky ones. Hold on to it.

D) Your time doesn't seem the same as it did in school. Either you have a lot more and you don't know what to do, or you never have enough hours in the day to do what you need to do, but either way, you might just feel like somebody switched up how fast the clocks go.

E) The world kind of sucks. Yep, let's just accept this one. See, the thing is, it doesn't suck less in highschool, you just know that highschool is a limited-time thing, and you can just power through to get to the end. Life isn't a limited-time thing. It just keeps going.

F) FML. You're bound to say it, feel it, think it, or just know it.

G) Sometimes, the best approach is a few hours off with a good CD on repeat and a slab of something warm and baked. Unless your problem is obesity.

So, I guess what I want to say, is this:

Yes, it sucks. It's hard. It always was, and always will be. There are people your age who know how much it sucks because they're there too. There are also older people who can connect and maybe help you out, depending on what's wrong. Biggest thing to remember: This too shall pass. Maybe not like highschool, or like a bad excrement, but it will pass, whatever it is. Whether it's as sucky as a kidney stone, or as simple as a jackass on the freeway, it will pass.

Oh, but just because it'll end, doesn't mean you don't have to work hard between now and then.