post-college life is weird...

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  • Опубліковано 14 лис 2024

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  • @kylabenedict7378
    @kylabenedict7378 Місяць тому +8

    This is probably extra hard for you considering you don't have social media, let alone a smart phone. I have been incredibly inspired by you from your switching to a flip phone video, and I have been seriously considering doing the same for a while now. What I get worried about is exactly this, it being a lot harder to make connections and build relationships with people without it. I fear this is a norm in society to really only be connected through social media, which is very sad. I wish everyone would delete it and then we would all have to make connections in real life. I could make excuses and say that I can't trade my phone in for this reason or that, but realistically I probably could. It is just a scary thing to do. I wish I had your bravery and confidence

  • @Saphy21
    @Saphy21 Місяць тому +21

    Hi Christofu, I had a strange experience in college (well, university) but I feel like it somewhat it could relate to you. Due to Covid, I didn't study in my university until my final year. It was very lonesome, I made no true friends. I now work in my dream job but I feel an absence of friends my age. Or even just a general connection with someone. It's quite a media saturated, social media world. I have none of that, I'm happy without social media but it feels very lonely. Not many people in their early twenties don't have social media. I hope you're doing well, I think you're quite articulate about these things. I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for soon.

    • @Yokio.o.i
      @Yokio.o.i Місяць тому +1

      I agree with you too ! Alot of people around my age care most of the time about social media and what to post . It feels lonely when you are not interested that much in social media . As you said sometimes all you need is a general normal conversation with someone.

  • @jpalmtreee
    @jpalmtreee Місяць тому +22

    Super valid emotions brother. You are a genuine human for being willing to share those emotions. I experienced the same thing. I would argue in general it can be more challenging to make friends post high school / college. Work can be a great place to meet people but it’s just not the same as school where more people are close in age with similar interests.

  • @Hannah-mj9vg
    @Hannah-mj9vg Місяць тому +19

    I think the hardest friend to make is yourself.
    Having other people in our life is very fulfilling because we are social creatures.
    But I do think that learning how to be happy/content alone is important to learn. When I first moved to college I felt kinda like this and it took me learning to love being alone for room to make itself available for new people in my life that I can now call friends.
    My best suggestion is feel all you have to feel while you can. It’s odd, but one day you won’t be able to be where you are and how you are now ever again and so taking in the moment now will make today and tomorrow feel better.
    Sending support! Take care of yourself. You’re not alone in feeling lonely.

  • @sameerameen4791
    @sameerameen4791 Місяць тому +7

    Thanks for being vulnerable. It is so hard to transition from having your friends living a couple minutes away (or literally the next room over) to working a 9-5. 100% sure you are not alone. You'll find your rhythm and I hope I will too when I graduate next spring.

  • @sultankarakas2566
    @sultankarakas2566 Місяць тому +4

    Hello Chris. Your feelings are very common and super valid... I'm feeling like you as well. I just graduated this year but after 3 months summer break, I'm starting to Master's. Now I'm in my new dorm room. My roommates didn't come yet and I don't know who they are. I'm in a new and very big city, at a new university and I'm feeling scared and lonely. As you said too, things have changed and our collage friendships are not the same. I'm not missing collage specifically but I'm missing that familiar routine. Now I need to start over everything. I think we will all have new and good friends because we know ourselves better anymore. But most importantly we need to be good friends with ourselves. I think being a grown-up is something about this, there won't be people around us always. In the end of the day, we are all alone and we should find something that makes us feel free rather than alone and depressive. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and feelings, have a nice trip 🌿

  • @Gsf05
    @Gsf05 11 днів тому

    Hi, I just wanted to mention I watched a few of your videos and they really inspired me. I relate to the uncertainty you feel about your current situation and life in general, I feel the same way about mine. I'm currently a first year University student and the transition from Highschool to University has been difficult for me to adjust to. My graduation class only consisted of 21 people, and only 6 of us attended each day.
    When I started in late august, I felt so much anxiety just being around so many different people, and the fact I was alone without anyone I knew from home. I'm a Plains Cree person who grew up in a reservation most of my life, and the switch from being into a small community to a huge City really gave me a cultural shock. I'm a very introverted person so it's still taking a while to adjust. Anyways I can relate to the feeling of being in place where you were once comfortable and knew people to not knowing where you are and having no one close to you. Your video and just self-reflection really resonated with my personal experience right now.
    Even so, I think it's a beautiful thing to be able to experience these things, we only live once and we're not getting any younger, so I think whatever your feeling right now is totally valid. Your experience of college really influenced my general perspective of post-secondary, It's really uncommon for Indigenous people to attend University so I'm really glad I made the decision to attend. I hope you can continue to find enjoyment and friendships in the place you are in right now, congrats on graduating too. That's a really big accomplish and I'm very happy you got to experience it all. Good and Bad.
    Keep up with the videos man, they're really cool to watch :)

  • @danilshchukin1849
    @danilshchukin1849 Місяць тому +2

    I don't know how the youtube algorithm works and how this video even got recommended to me, but what you're experiencing right now resonates with me a lot. I've moved several countries due to studies and work, and I do understand now how it is hard to build a new social network from scratch. It's quite exhausting and you don't even have enough time for that. It's really weird to be 24, but also work 8-9 hours a day, spending all your days with older colleagues and not having enough meaningful connections. Thank you for such a genuine video, and I hope life will get better for all of us going through these weird times.

  • @KalpeshMange92
    @KalpeshMange92 Місяць тому +5

    Hey Chris. Moving away for work after college can be hard. I did it myself. Moved coasts. Hope you cherish the quiet and find something that resonates with you in your third space. You got this. 🙂😎

  • @ilyalovescats
    @ilyalovescats 21 день тому

    thank you for being so open and transparent, including with all the videos you've done so far. i really like this vlog-diary style too, feels more real. i've felt this way after mid-highschool, which wasn't easy, but had put things into perspective. friends come and go, but you're the only person that stays because you're in your body. still in college, but still haven't found my true footing. anyhow, i hope things wind up working out well for both you and me. much love ❤

  • @anap4ulina
    @anap4ulina Місяць тому +11

    Commuting three hours is crazy😭 I hope u can live in a walkable city near your job🙏

  • @dewashish5199
    @dewashish5199 Місяць тому +3

    Thanks for posting ❤

  • @matildajc611
    @matildajc611 Місяць тому +1

    Hey, I’m really glad you posted this, it really resonates with me, and I’m sure lots of others too. I’m beginning to learn what people mean when they talk about their 20s being… weird. I’m sorry you’re going through this at the moment. We’re moving into autumn, everything in nature is changing, so it’s no wonder if you are too. I hope this feeling doesn’t linger too long! I really appreciate your videos, all the best! :)

  • @alphatrue1198
    @alphatrue1198 Місяць тому +1

    well, i'm in a different phase of weirdness, i just started my college away from family, friends with strange new people and life style with ambivalent feelings toward these things.

  • @kindaking
    @kindaking Місяць тому

    we're all going through this together!! moved from NYC to LA post-grad this year and definitely feeling a similar feeling :) but realized that finding community is so important and the first year is probably always the hardest - good luck!

  • @ainerice9908
    @ainerice9908 Місяць тому

    Your video really resonated with me. I just went back to school after working on the East Coast for two years post grad. It gets easier with time I reckon. I had a similar situation with having no friends near me after college. It’ll improve I’m sure but it’s nice to hear you logically list the reasons of why that’s simply just the situation for now. Solo camping and lifting weights tho is a great use of your time ! You got this !

  • @elafnaser9808
    @elafnaser9808 Місяць тому +1

    Take care of your self and be glad to every thing you have

  • @MyThirdPlaceLtd
    @MyThirdPlaceLtd Місяць тому +2

    Definitely need more third spaces as you highlighted, wishing you well

  • @oliwkowepole
    @oliwkowepole Місяць тому

    I love your videos and you really gave me hope for people these days. Graduating in February, can’t wait and also scared!! I’m also struggling finding friends, but I try to spend as much quality time with myself as I can. Thank you for sharing your emotions

  • @anishravilla6847
    @anishravilla6847 Місяць тому

    Thanks for sharing your thoughts about this. I know what you mean about the volunteering (I’ve had to say no to a lot of interesting stuff bc it’s in the work day), but I’m confident that your curiosity will take you somewhere unique and there you’ll find interesting people. Our curiosity is our greatest strength and you’re one of the people I’ve had the privilege of meeting that has the most of it, just don’t forget that man

  • @yosoki7468
    @yosoki7468 Місяць тому

    Hey chris, i really hope things get better, your schedule sounds really packed but i think it perpetuates your situation. I understand that you cannot change it but maybe try to socialize with people while you commute, at work, maybe join a book club that holds meetings at night?, strike up a conversation at a bar with someone you deem interesting. While these people might not be your friends or even potential friends, having a quick chat with someone might make you feel better. Reconnect with someone who lives in the area or nearby. Also remember that all of this is temporary, you are still navigating your way through this and this is just a phase and it shall pass 🫶

  • @aaronng59
    @aaronng59 Місяць тому +2

    Miss ya dawg

  • @i_am_vaibhav-ft6dx
    @i_am_vaibhav-ft6dx Місяць тому

    Following you was the best decision so far brother !! keep growing keep learning brother

  • @Devp1006
    @Devp1006 Місяць тому

    3h a day commute is ROUGH!! I'm sorry that this is the state of america - it isn't common outside of US afaik. I guess you have to weigh up your options, and ask yourself what you want out of your life at this point in time :))
    P.S. Your channel has helped me question exactly what i want out of my own life - and so I owe you a lot of gratitude!

  • @yuvanganeshsivaraman
    @yuvanganeshsivaraman Місяць тому

    Bro I'm in the same situation but an introvert and have no job too😢.

  • @Job-tn8yh
    @Job-tn8yh Місяць тому +3

    Hey Christofu! Been following your channel for a while because I found it very relatable and I learned from it.
    I just wanna say I have recently been in the same boat, I'm 27, which is a little older than you I think, and for the past two / three years I've been navigating those post-college feelings as well. Switching from the college life to the workday life is so unsettling, they named a crisis after it: the quarter life crisis! I found that out whilst looking for answers too, lol.
    Being in college, there is so much to do, so many people around, and you have such a strong sense of community, the social aspect of it alone lifts you up. When I started working, I realised that I no longer had that upwards pull in my life, and had to find ways to stay afloat by myself.
    I'll share some of what helped me get to the other side of that crisis:
    1. It's a crisis
    I don't know if you even want to frame these feelings as a "crisis" as it has a pretty negative connotation, but for me it helped to think of it that way, as a "crisis" is by definition something that doesn't last. It prevents you from being complacent about something you are unhappy about, it pushes you to keep looking for solutions, and it's the best place to be in for breakthroughs. You'll never grow as much as when you find your way through a crisis.
    I started off from a place of pure resistance where I hated the idea of work (I work in tech and got laid off a few months into my first "real" grownup job by a very rich man who bought my company and changed its name, I'll say no more...). I was really, really angry and I didn't see the point of working at all, I'd done everything right and I was still miserable. I just wanted college back, where setbacks don't matter as much because it is as though you're still in life's playground.
    Eventually, it dawned on me that I was just sabotaging myself, that even though I think it's imperfect, I can't change the way society works right here right now. I'm not a fan of self help books and positivity at all, because there's no unique solution to everyone's problems, and because happy is just not the default state of mind for our species. But I did realise that there was a lot I could do to help myself, that the way I feel depends on the way I frame things and is also very much so influenced by my body.
    2. Framing
    It's a whole process and I don't want to bore you to death with more of my own tribulations, but yeah, perspective is definitely essential to how you live your life. In the best and worst of places, it's what makes the difference between happy/content people and miserable people. I have people in my family that are pretty sick and yet much more content with life with any healthy person. It makes or breaks a life, the way you see things. At the moment I'm reading a book which is helping me a lot with this, it's called "Flow" by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi. The author was born in the 30s, so some things are slightly old fashioned (as a woman, some of it made me roll my eyes), but the essential concept of the book is some really good stuff. I'd really recommend that.
    I don't know, instead of being annoyed when I'm walking to work in a crowd of other people also walking to work, I just think of all of us as ants, and it becomes really funny. It's no longer a rat race in which I am forcibly a part of, it's just ants. We're ants. I pick a leader ant and me and all the other ants follow the leader ant. Makes the crowded train station more fun, really.
    3. Feeling good
    That one is very stupid, mostly because I should have thought of it way before I actually did, but being able to have a good perspective on life and to be able to find the energy to enjoy things I could enjoy and to changes things I couldn't, I needed to feel good first. I mean, from the most basic chemical level possible. It had not really mattered in college because I was younger, and as I said, the social aspect of it lifted me up on its own, but in this new situation, actually feeling good became a challenge. To each their own with diet, etc, etc, but erm, moms are right, you will feel much better if you eat a ton of vegetables, actually. I also stopped drinking coffee, which affected me so much more than I realised, made my thought patterns chaotic and my days less stable. And just that, just that.. Helped a lot.
    People are also a mood lifter, we tend to forget how much a conversation with a coworker or family member, even when it is about mundane things, can help. We may not be surrounded by close friends all the time anymore, but we are still surrounded by people, and people make us happy on the whole (well I don't know, if you live in New York, maybe not all the people, last time I was there someone almost ran me over cause I wasn't crossing fast enough???).
    The sun too helps a lot, but that you can't control! Looks like a cloudy day where you are and sometimes, look no further, that's why life feels blue sometimes. Get a hot chocolate and be glad when the sun comes back ;)
    Other than that, call friends randomly, go to the public library (last third space standing), to a cafe to read, to the cinema (that has helped me a lot too in the past two years, to get really into cinema, go see something random on the weekend!).
    Well I really have to go to work now, I hope you'll find a useful nugget of information in there. You've helped me a lot when I switched to a dumb phone so I hope this helps just a little bit. Being off the constant flow of information bombarded at you by social media also helps tremendously, obviously. It feels as though this can replace social relationships sometimes, but it's not true, it just make you feel more lonely in the end.
    Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and don't forget that behind weird there is good!

  • @Jasmine-nf5bk
    @Jasmine-nf5bk 9 днів тому

    christofu ---- I just wanted to say "HELLO" and see how you are getting along🤗.

  • @kearagagnet
    @kearagagnet Місяць тому

    I’m graduating in less than 6 months and I’m nervous for how lost I’m going to feel 🙃 it’s gonna be such a weird feeling to go from being in college to just working

  • @harukiishiga
    @harukiishiga Місяць тому +2

    hey man just a question
    are u still using your flip phone?

  • @doink4997
    @doink4997 Місяць тому

    Grad school, let's gooooo

  • @Jasmine-nf5bk
    @Jasmine-nf5bk Місяць тому

    Hey Chris,
    Are you really all right? I'm a bit concerned about you. Without having a "real-time" friendship with you, I am still hearing/seeing some very unsettled feelings from you.
    I am one of your subscribers...and I just watched (again) the video you shared about your family...your mother more specifically. It's such a beautiful video. I watch all your videos. And I've taken your suggestion on some of the books and the movies you've mentioned too...enjoyed them very much.
    I apologize if this is being intrusive...me asking if you're all right.
    I've been told I feel too much of other peoples' emotions.

  • @Tocinos
    @Tocinos Місяць тому

    Sounds like a joke, but what I be telling kids is that once you're no longer sitting at the kids table at the family gathering, you're one step from picking out colleges.

  • @x3479
    @x3479 Місяць тому

    Im pre college and shits alr weird l

  • @shenshaw5345
    @shenshaw5345 Місяць тому

    dude I go to UC, im from the east coast, and im a senior.

  • @lw4423
    @lw4423 Місяць тому

    Are you trans?

    • @shihabwegdan325
      @shihabwegdan325 Місяць тому +1

      What😂

    • @lw4423
      @lw4423 Місяць тому

      @@shihabwegdan325 You've got that butch lesbian FtM look.

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    @mdborhan9703 Місяць тому

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