Hey everyone. Welcome back to Grown Kid. I'm Gail. And I'm Kayla. And welcome back to

another episode where we will be reading all the things you overshared on grownca.com. And if you haven't

gone to groanco.com, there's literally a big text box where you can just anonymously submit

stories about whatever. And every once in a while, we'll read some of the submissions on the

podcast. We've gotten some good stuff recently. People are really using this. Let's start off with some of these first couple. Okay

I am a 19 year old female and I struggle with the loss of identity related to a lack of hobbies. I recently moved to a new city for university and I love it here. I have great friends and a good living situation. It's just that I find myself not really having a life outside school besides going out

drinking and with my friends.

In my hometown, I always had been involved in a lot of activities such as ceramics, art,

theater, swimming, music, etc.

But as I moved, I lost those activities and therefore a big part of my identity.

I'm struggling to find back to that part of myself.

I feel like a lot of adults experience this. They feel like a loss of identity because of the

hobbies that they miss from their childhood. And it's a good thing too though that you already

have some sort of foundation of what you already like, like you listed. I don't know, in

university it's also hard because it feels like

the infrastructure of college itself is trying to like mold people into like this one specific

like archetype for the most part. And so it can be hard to like find yourself there even more.

But I would say go back to what you liked as a kid.

Like let yourself play and explore those hobbies without having any pressure attached to them.

Because it looks like you already relatively know what you want.

I'm also like, what is identity?

I'm trying to think, what do I tie my identity to?

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