Barely Functional Adult Quotes

“There is a strange but potent comfort in the discovery that someone else has experienced the exact same feelings as we have.

And seeing these feelings--the ones we previously thought were unique to us-- perfectly articulated by someone else comes as a bit of a surprise.

It makes me wonder whether all our stories are more or less the same-- that there is a fixed number of emotions to be had in this world, and despite the distinctive notes that separate your story from mine, the underlying feelings that we experience--even the most deeply isolating ones--are actually much more universal than we think.”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“Books always felt more comforting than people...”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“I feel like 90% of my life is spent feeling lost. "

What do you feel in the other 10%?"

"Fatigue.”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“Pretending to be extroverted when you're an introverted is about as fun as shoving your face into a dirty bucket of ice. I constantly felt on edge and my sensitivity towards social cues surged like an off-brand Spidey sense. I soon found myself developing this fun little habit of replaying past conversations in my head as I spent my days drowning in a ball pit of self-consciousness.”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“When things are overtly terrible and you feel lost, you understand how to fix it. The remedy may not be easy, but the remedy is clear. But when things are seemingly perfect, when you’ve done all the things you set out to do, and you still feel lost—that’s a much more unsettling realization.”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“A funny thing happens when someone asks 'How are you?' coupled with a meaningful head tilt. The reflexive, safe answer to give is 'Good, thanks.' But then again we say "good" only because it makes the question go away. Tell someone 'I'm doing horribly ' and the conversation gets knocked off its axis into a marsh of soggy discomfort.”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“The realization that I was ill-prepared for life set in remarkably quickly after graduation. So quickly, in fact, that I almost felt as though I deserved praise for my high level of self-awareness. Sadly, no one ever rewards me for my self awareness.”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“There is something to be said about the people who are able to give us the exact kind of junk we love. Not the expensive gifts, because anyone can give those, but the inexpensive ones, the crap no one would steal if we left it in our cars, the worthless but priceless totems that remind us we are seen.”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“there is a fixed number of emotions to be had in this world, and despite the distinctive notes that separate your stories from mine, the underlying feelings that we experience—even the most deeply isolating ones—are actually much more universal than we think.”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“The problem with getting older is that you start asking yourself increasingly annoying questions-questions like: What am I doing with my life? What am I supposed to be doing with my life?Where is all this even going?”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“Then what do you wanna do?"

"I don't know. Read...or write?"

"So basically you're not interested in hanging out with other people?"

"Well, maybe we could read in close proximity of one another... or we could go bookstore hopping!"

"You just keep getting cooler and cooler. "

"Books ARE cool! Okay. I don't need this!”
― Meichi Ng , Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“Trying to make new friends from scratch when you're well into adulthood is an emotionally dehabilitating experience.”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“I told my therapist how I had been feeling this heaviness, more than my usual amount of stress and anxiety, as though I were moving through life underwater.

"I've been hard on myself lately," I began. "I feel like I always have a long list of things I need to do, but I keep getting distracted doing useless things like watching TV or mindlessly scrolling through the internet. And at the end of each wasted day, I always ask myself "What is wrong with you? Why are you like this?" It's like...this crippling cycle of guilt and disappointment, and it always ends in anger towards myself for not being better.”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“I wonder what it's like to not be broken.

Hmm...

Must be nice ✨”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“My self awareness has helped me identify the existence of a problem.

But it has not helped me identify a way to resolve it.

Self- awareness is the worst.”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“No, I did not see what my ex posted and do you know why?"

"Why?"

"Because I don't waste my time on garbage people.”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“Maybe therapy isn’t about fixing things, but accepting them as they are—broken and imperfect, sure, but still worthwhile and beautiful in their own strange ways.”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“Embracing how everyone is broken in their own ways and learning how to feel okay about it.”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“But I think there’s value in knowing when to call it, in knowing when to get up and leave, in knowing when we’re done—even if it means having to walk out into the unknown to start all over again. We”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“Sometimes when we see the wasps in our lives, we have this tendency to ignore them—especially when no one else around us seems bothered. It’s always easier to disregard things rather than deal with them.”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“It’s important to hold on to your good days; they keep you sane in the face of bad ones. *”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“Sometimes when we see the wasps in our lives, we have this tendency to ignore them—especially when no one else around us seems bothered. It’s always easier to disregard things rather than deal with them.
But I think there’s value in knowing when to call it, in knowing when to get up and leave, in knowing when we’re done—even if it means having to walk out into the unknown to start all over again.
We can never really be sure of what will be waiting for us on the other side, but it’s gotta beat sitting there with a mouthful of wasps, pretending everything is okay.”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“A symphony of regret started tuning their instruments in my head—the same symphony one hears when they agree to go to a party and then later realize the night before the party that they actually hate both people and parties.”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“You know those rare moments in life when you finally feel as though you’ve clawed your way to the surface of the water and you’re on top of everything for once? Those refreshing slivers of time where you look around and think to yourself, Well, I’ll be damned. I guess I’m actually getting the hang of it! Why are those moments always so short-lived?”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“We write our own stories. And we can write whatever the hell we want.”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“After I got home that day, I stood and stared out the window for a really long time. It was unnecessarily dramatic, but that just made it all the more necessary. As my eyes scanned the city below me, I wondered if I could fight crime.”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“holding on to the good parts of our stories is something we do for ourselves, and not for other people.”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“When I look back today, I can appreciate the good moments without feeling conflicted, just as I am able to recall the bad ones with quiet objectivity.”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“I’ve since taken up the habit of holding on to three good memories for every person who has played a significant part in my life.”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

“There’s comfort in knowing you can be on your way to somewhere good even if you’re not always in control of it all.”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually