be gone, ignorance!

My parents call me a "greenhouse plant" - ie. not one that has roughed the winds/waters/bugs/blazing sun/etc. of the wild, but one that has grown up safely inside of a man-maintained utopic environment. It's kind of funny at times, but also pretty darn sad. Now that I am about to become a second semester senior in college, heading to grad school and eventually the "real world", I am feeling rather urgent about conquering my ignorance/book-smarts-only self.

After being educated in the ways of literature, art, music, food, even fashion, I find myself very not knowledgeable about the things that actually run the world — politics, economics, oceanography (jk) — and it's like WHOA why am I not a grown-up yet? Has being a Millennial dulled my curiosity (except in the lives of others around me, ie. social media) and made me more ADD (ie. unable to focus on a single task such as reading a lengthy book/article)? Yes, great literature and great art is awesome, makes life worth living, and my brain is just more attuned to those subjects. But...there needs to be something more.

Of course, I feel like I come to this conclusion+sense of urgency every so often, and yet it's so hard to change old habits. How to fix this intellectual crisis of mine? ._.