BSU | ENGL 4170 | Lindsay Larson | Repurposing

The Yet Factor

Uncertainties jumped on my back and latched on tight as soon as I was handed my high school diploma and packed up to move out of my parents’ house for college.  So far, early adulthood hasn’t meant entering the new, exciting stage in my life to explore all the world has to offer me.

Truthfully, it doesn't usually feel very exciting, and I haven't seen much of the world, yet. I see a lot of my apartment, school, and the restaurant where I work. I've reached that age and suddenly it -- the Yet -- is upon me.  It’s societal, natural. Right?

It has meant being shoved into limbo – that blurry, gray space between identities, between lives.  I am to simply hover until something big happens – a career, marriage, something – for as long as it takes me.

Yet.  That is what keeps us going, the Yet Factor:  I don’t have a guy yet, I haven’t got a great body yet, I have yet to figure out what profession I want to have, what exactly I’m here for. What's a girl to do?