Welcome to the Twenties Club

Spending this last month at home for Christmas break, I found myself really nostalgic. Maybe it’s because it was the tenth anniversary of my first Nutcracker performance, or because I visited my high school and felt irrelevant, or maybe even because Gossip Girl ended, but I was seriously reflective about my life and how my friends and I have all changed in the three years since graduation.

It made me realize I had taken my childhood for granted. The years when you compared lunches not drunken hook ups; when deciding your career could easily change every other day; and where your heart only broke when you missed the new episode of Arthur.

Maybe those cheesy confidence boosting books they gave us in elementary school secretly did help, because we all seemed to have had it figured out then. Now this wonderful decade of our twenties that we’re all embarking on, has no manual or confidence guide. Lizzie McGuire has been replaced with HBO’s Girls and Chicken Noodle Soup for the Teenage soul has been replaced with articles about what length of pencil skirt is appropriate at an interview and how to really tell if that guy in your psych class likes you. While those are great, isn’t more than just that happening? We’re figuring ourselves out-- our beliefs, values, passions. This is the time to experience everything and truly discover what we want in this life. I’ve had so many friends say they are confused and scared for their future, and to that, I say welcome to the club. The twenties club: where everyone is at least a little bit scared, and if they say they aren’t, they’re lying. 

Yes, our futures are unknown which can be scary, but isn’t it also exciting? There is so much for us to do and it’s waiting for us to find it.

“Being in your twenties is all about discovering which things hurt you and what makes you feel good. This is what your twenties are for: to feel and see as much as you can. Don’t think for a second that you’re not going to miss those nights you spent putting on your make-up, changing five million times, drinking wine, smoking cigarettes out your apartment window. You will miss all of this. This is a luxury. Youth is fucking magic.” -Pinterest image quote

"Your 20s' are your 'selfish' years. It's a decade to immerse yourself in every single thing possible. Be selfish with your time, and all the aspects of you. Tinker with shit, travel, explore, love a lot, love a little, and never touch the ground." -Kyoko Escamilla

I don’t want to wake up one day, be 50 years old and realize I didn’t fully appreciate my twenties, just like how I feel about my childhood now. This is an exciting time my friends, and since we’re all freaking out anyways, let’s freak out together. Like how crazy is it when facebook seems to be announcing an engagement every day? What are appropriate drinks to order when there are no red solo cups and unidentified liquid in a punch bowl in sight? And am I the only one who has had a phone interview while sitting in my bathroom? We’re going to be finding out regardless, so why not chronicle my experiences for others to relate to, laugh at, and/or mock? I’m in the twenties state of mind.

xx


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