5 hard truths post-grad that are hard to swallow:

1) You immediately go from being around people 24/7 (living in dorms, being on campus) to being in a fragmented environment. It's so easy to make friends when everyone's concentrated in one place, you could literally meet people with common interests 10 feet away in your dorm. Now, if you want to make new friends you need to make more of an intentional effoirt. 2) Being in your 20s, there's this constant external pressure of feeling like you're not doing enough. Like you're losing this invisible race that you placed yourself in. 3) You realize fairly quickly if you have your green light or red light on based on how easy it is to make friends. Most likely, you have your red light on and don't even know it. 4) You're in this weird in-between phase where you're grinding for your career while some friends are getting engaged or married. 5) You'll find yourself wanting to replicate the same friend groups and lifestyle you had in college. But it will never be the same. People you used to see every day? Now you see them every couple of months. You used to go out until 2am, but now you're too tired from work to even make plans.