Young adults
The story about being 19 is all energy and possibility. The reality for a lot of people is more isolated than anyone lets on.
If you're 19 and at university, you're likely in your second year. The first year had a built-in social infrastructure: everyone was new, everyone was trying, the whole thing was engineered for meeting people. Second year often doesn't. The frenzied sociability of freshers week is over, and what remains either deepened into something real or it didn't. Many people find second year lonelier than first, precisely because the safety net of everyone-trying-together has been removed.
If you didn't find your people in first year — or if the people you found have since moved to different houses, different cities, different friend groups — second year can feel like starting again without the excuse of being new.
If you're 19 and not at university, you might be working, doing an apprenticeship, figuring out what comes next. The social world around you is full of people, but the conditions for forming deep friendships — shared experience, time, proximity — are harder to find outside of education. And social media makes it look like everyone else is having the time of their lives at university, which adds another layer of noise to an already hard feeling.
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