life at 21: dealing with impending graduation doom

Teenager Therapy

Astrolescence & Joy Coalition

Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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kayla graduates in a week and neither of us can belive it. you know what moment when you try to make yourself purposely sad because it's confirmation you're living in the present? yeah that's currently what's happening here as she walks around campus and thinks about graduation. we talk about impending doom, if college was worth it, and what she will miss. follow us: @grownk1d @gaelaitor @_kaylasuarez join our social club: https://form.typeform.com/to/eBSho4lE overshare with us: grownkid.com About our Partners: GrownKid is made in partnership with Joy Coalition where purpose driven content meets powerful storytelling. From 13 reasons Why to unprisoned, Joy Coalition projects are made to bridge generations and drive groundbreaking conversations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey people, welcome back to Crown Kid. I'm Guy Al.
0:15.2	And Dan Kayla. It's graduating season for a lot of people. I wouldn't know because I'm not in school.
0:21.6	I'm not in college.
0:22.4	But I'm seeing all my friends posting about graduating,
0:26.6	taking pictures, grant photos, last day of classes, ever.
0:32.0	Ever.
0:33.0	Kayla, you're in schools.
0:34.1	Are you feeling?
0:34.7	I am, it sounds so cliche, but I just can't believe it's already here.
0:39.0	I can't believe it is now graduation season.
0:43.0	And I remember literally last year around this time, I would be seeing, you know,
0:48.0	like people setting out for grad and thinking like, okay, well, I still have a year left
0:52.0	until I'm at that point.
0:55.9	And now I'm at that point. and now I'm at that point.
1:05.8	Yeah, I had my last week of classes last week, and I was expecting more emotionally on my side.
1:13.0	I was expecting to feel very sentimental and, like, sappy and sad, but I feel like for the most part, I was more so just going through the motion of like, this is just another week of school and I'm tired and I'm
1:17.1	overwhelmed. And I just like want to complete all of my assignments. And so I feel like because
1:23.4	of that, I wasn't feeling very nostalgic or anything and I was trying to I was trying to be like
1:31.5	really sad about it like I would I would purposefully like make myself like sit on campus and just
1:37.4	think you know um nothing would come out nothing would go out and I'm like damn me worse feeling
1:43.9	when it's like I I want to cry.
1:45.2	Yes.
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