YOUNG 20 SOMETHINGS..

Being a young twenty something - it’s not the easy roller coaster you’re probably thinking it is. I can just imagine the thirty somethings rolling their eyes (yes, I am speaking to you). Yeah, yeah, I get it, we don’t have wrinkles, a house full of mouths to feed or a mortgage that requires us to make decisions based around “said” responsibilities.

But hear me out… directly from the source of an ambitious twenty something, who is really just stumbling through life trying to figure out what the hell she is supposed to be doing.

We are in our twenty’s - sure, we are young; and we have our whole lives ahead of us. (I know we don’t have a family of four children who all need new school shoes, but just take a moment to listen to my story).

But we have absolutely no idea what direction it is our life is going in. We are trying to, but with little life experience and the unsaid pressures about “getting our life together” it’s like we are constantly trying to keep our heads above water, or hold on to the edge of that cliff we feel like we are about to fall off.

If we are lucky, we have the ability to go to University to study a degree (where we are working long hours - for shit pay), we are paying off large student loans and wearing yesterday’s socks for the second day... Between studying, completing those damn assignments, trying to eat healthy, exercise, remembering when we last washed our hair, maintaining enough of a social life - one where our friends don’t feel neglected, and working to earn enough to purchase two minute noodles for brekkie, lunch and dinner; who really has the time or want to do their bloody washing? Not us!

Young twenty somethings; our relationships are constantly making and breaking, it sucks.

Relationships are hard to build and then even harder to maintain, it feels as though we are floating through life, having no idea about the normalities of relationships; we don’t even know the normalities of our own god damn lives. So the continuous confusion about why Jill, (your new best friend, who just became your old best friend) called you a hoe behind your back hurts like a punch to the face, along with the insecurities you already felt about yourself in the first place. Cheers Jill.

But what could really suck about being a young twenty something you ask?

Seeing a long distance relative in the supermarket who provides you with a little piece of their advice, and it always seems to be something along the lines of... "you’re young, you should be experiencing the different things that life has to offer, go out and travel, meet new people”, or, “you need to buckle down and decide what you want to do with your life, get yourself a good career, set yourself up for life. You’re lucky. We never had the opportunities you kids do these days.”

Thanks for your advice… let me know how I can pass my degree, work full-time and while I travel the world, I look forward to it.

Guess who is starting early on those wrinkles (now you know why we’re so obsessed with those injections so early)?

Young twenty somethings.