Late to the party again, but I’ve had this song stuck in my head the last few days: “2 Days Into College” by Aimee Carty.
It seems to be a little social media famous, with people doing their own cuts and verses of the song (like this), but I am too out of touch with social trends to really comment. All I know is that the song is sweet and meaningful and makes me think of what the verse for “10 Years out of College” would sound like (it’s been ten years since my college graduation this May).
For me it would be something like this, but full disclaimer I am writing with a cold and light fever . . .
I’m ten years out of college
Yet I still feel so behind
All these dreams I thought I’d locked in
Got car crashed by life
Like the love that didn’t work out how I planned
Just twenty-four and I felt scammed
Moving into a one-bedroom with no money and asking my parents for a hand
I wake up so tired
In the middle of the night
I’m too fucking wired
To give my brain a fight
It runs me through the greatest hits
‘If only I’d done this and this and this’
So I put on another podcast
And try to forget
I know that I am actually doing quite well
I try to trust that, yet somedays
I just want to yell
Because the nursery’s empty
And my throat is sore
And I remember so much more
Every single closed door
Every promise that’s been torn
I should remember
I am still pretty young
In the scheme of life and all that a person can become
I’ve got time
I’ve got time
Of course, I found a much better version of this for sad millennials, check it out:
With Love,
Natalie