Early Adulthood

5 literary Companions in this category.

• Watching Friends Diverge — When your people choose different paths

  You’ve probably been noticing for a while. The texts get shorter. The responses take longer. The inside jokes stop landing because they require shared context you no longer have. You suggest getting t

• Moving Back Home — When independence reverses

  You’re standing in your apartment, the one you worked three jobs to afford, packing boxes at two in the morning. This wasn’t supposed to happen. You were supposed to be done with this chapter. The con

• Leaving Your First Real Job — When the learning is over

  It doesn’t announce itself. There’s no dramatic incident, no explosive meeting. You’re sitting at your desk on a Tuesday and you realize: there’s nothing here you don’t already know how to do. The tas

• Outgrowing Your College Friends — When shared history isn’t enough

  You’re at brunch. Or a reunion. Or someone’s wedding. You’re with your college friends, the people you lived with, stayed up with, became an adult alongside. The people who knew you when you were figu

• Realizing You Chose Wrong — When your degree doesn’t fit anymore

  You’re at work. Doing the thing you trained to do. The thing you’re qualified for. The thing that should feel like the culmination of all that education. And you’re thinking: I don’t want to be here.