Yup! It’s livestock behavior. I find it so alarming that many men seem to believe their lives peak in college. Not saying you can’t have fond memories of school and your younger years. And I get being lost and confused right after graduation if you didn’t have a job lined up, or had the wrong job lined up. But missing going to school with a backpack on your back at 27? Honestly one of my recurring nightmare is being back in either high school or college.
Eh, sometimes I miss college but when I break down the things I miss vs. the things I don't miss, it's kind of a crapshoot.
Things I miss:
Availability of hot guys!
The location I went to school
Living with and near friends
Learning about cool stuff
Free time
Things I don't miss:
Dating assholes
Living in a small town with assholes
Living in a house with assholes
Taking bullshit classes taught by assholes
Spending time out of class on bullshit assignments
Being broke all the time
I agree that Suburban misses the structure and he probably also misses the girls, but I'd guess that the "real" problem is that trying to figure your adult life out is a big responsibility and he has no idea how to go about being an adult.
If I were to give Salmonid some life advice, I'd say that he should:
- take a class at the JC in graphic design.
- do a marketing internship for a product or service he knows nothing about.
- join some kind of faggy "young professionals" organization in Miami.
- take his girlfriend and dog on a week-long canoe trip in the Everglades with no phone.
- get on some meds.
I'd say that Solder shouldn't:
- make being an "ally" a core plank of his identity.
- try to be a single-ooperator entrepreneur in a field he barely understands.
- make cringey videos rationalizing his latent anxiety, insecurity, and depression.
It's fine that Standard Oil of New York (SONY) doesn't have everything figured out, but I think he would feel personally better in a more structured environment.
And FFS stop live-blogging what sounds like a major depressive episode.