“I think the reason why twentysomethings are so fixated on age is because we feel a pressure to be a certain way at 23, at 25, at 29. There are all of these invisible deadlines with our careers and with love and drinking and drugs. I can’t do coke at 25. I need to be in a LTR [Long Term Relationship] at 27. I can’t vomit from drinking at 26. I just can’t! We feel so much guilt for essentially acting our age and making mistakes. We’re obsessed with this idea of being domesticated and having our shit together. It’s kind of sad actually because I don’t think we ever fully get a chance to enjoy our youth. We’re so concerned about doing things “the right way” that we lose any sense of pleasure in doing things the wrong way. Youth may be truly wasted on the young.”
- Why Do Twentysomethings Always Feel So Old - Ryan O’Connell
via jennabee (via juneandafter (via littlelaur))
I had the list of to-dos also. I have had damn lists since I was thirteen telling me when to move to each base in a relationship, where to be in terms of job vs. career, where to go and what to do. I have rewritten my manuscript of lists compulsively and religiously. But I accomplished a lot of those lists while managing to have a good time so it isn't half bad.
Now that I'm in my early thirties I can't be bothered with a list. I reap the rewards of a previously hard driven era in my life. I also must undo some of my moronically unimportant goals. Why was growing up/settling down so important?
- Why Do Twentysomethings Always Feel So Old - Ryan O’Connell
via jennabee (via juneandafter (via littlelaur))
I had the list of to-dos also. I have had damn lists since I was thirteen telling me when to move to each base in a relationship, where to be in terms of job vs. career, where to go and what to do. I have rewritten my manuscript of lists compulsively and religiously. But I accomplished a lot of those lists while managing to have a good time so it isn't half bad.
Now that I'm in my early thirties I can't be bothered with a list. I reap the rewards of a previously hard driven era in my life. I also must undo some of my moronically unimportant goals. Why was growing up/settling down so important?
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