Arguing that graduating from college does not mean it is too late to change what one wants to do with his or her life, in her 2012 essay “The Opposite of Loneliness,” writer Marina Keegan explores what it means to feel a part of something, looking at how being pulled away from one’s circle of friends will feel strange and bizarre, and then assuages such feelings by proposing that the best years are yet to come. Her purpose is to make readers realize how young and full of possibility the still are in order to convince them that they can still do anything and it’s not too late to change plans completely. She establishes an informal relationship with her audience of fellow Yale graduates and any other people who feel that, after graduation, it
