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joy0302 · Kate Spade

RE: Is anyone else here in a funk?

lynnie · Chanel

It's good to hear other people feel similarly. I suspect a lot more people (if not everyone) feel this way quite often. The eternal meaning of life questions can't be completely drowned out by modern distractions. But it does seem like people don't like to talk about it that much, or admit to feeling that way. I know I feel it quite a bit and no amount of hobbies, friendships, vacations, work is going to take it away from me. It's part of being alive. Not that I want to live alone in a forest and ponder all day.

My best friend was up here this weekend for the holidays and it felt SO GOOD to have someone around that i've shared so much with- we've known each other since the 8th grade and I'm now 24. My mom (and Wonder Years! and Stand by Me! haha) says you'll never meet friends again like the ones you have when you're a kid. Sad, but maybe true. Though I definitely still love making friends :)

NCshopper · Hermes

I don't know that I'm in a funk right now, but I definitely hear what you're saying.

To me, right now the news is just depressing and I feel like our country as a whole is in this holding pattern, just kind of waiting for the election. It's weird because it's a feeling I've never seen before, but I just kind of feel like people in general are in this "wait and see" mode. And the economy is a large part too--I think people are just waiting and seeing what's going to happen next on that front.

Also, for what it's worth, I think it's hard to meet people in your twenties. Throughout our lives, we've become friends with the people we go to school with. Then when you graduate, it's like the rug got pulled out from underneath you and you feel like you've missed this crucial skill called "How to Meet People and Become Good Friends with Them." I think it probably gets easier once you have kids and settle into a neighborhood and become friends with your kid's friend's parents, that kind of thing. But I think in your twenties, making friends, especially GOOD friends--the kind whose shoulder you can cry on and who you can go out to coffee with and just gab--that's hard.