From TikTok star and the author ofI Didnt Know I Needed ThisEli Rallo, a reflection on the anxiety of transitioning into adulthood, navigating the quarter-life crisis, and realizing youre actually not alone.

Does anyone else feel like theyre the only one having a quarter-life crisis? As a senior in college, Eli Rallo expected her post-grad years to be filled with certainty, that she would finally feel that she was the adult she had long dreamed shed be, with a cool job, an amazing apartment, fabulous friends, and lots of fun and flirty date nights. Instead she was met with crippling social anxiety, no idea what direction her career was taking, an inability to stop comparing herself to her peers picture-perfect lives on social media, and a looming sense that she may never feel certainabout her dating life, friendships, career, or even herself.

With deep honesty, raw