Being In Your 20's Sucks!

When you were a kid, all you wanted was to grow up. You wanted to be an adult and not spend time with your parents and do whatever you want to do! By the time you're a teenager you think: "I can't wait to finish school and get on with my life, thing's will be so much better as an adult!". And then you leave school, hit your 20's, and realise "oh shit go back! I'll do anything to be seven years old again!" then you're stuck being an adult FOREVER. Literally, until the day you die. How unfair is that?!

The older generation will always say one of two things. Either: "you're only young, go live your lives!" or "when I was your age I worked three jobs and bought two houses, it's easy!". Turns out Grandad, things are in fact NOT easy, and I can't live my life because I'm broke. It's not the same as it was back in the 1930's when paying off your mortgage was like $10 a week!

Being in your 20's sounds like a great thing when you're younger. You believe you're going to be rich and you're going to have so much freedom to spend time with your friends. All the movies say that being in your 20's means you'll be enjoying bottomless brunches and getting drunk with your friends and everything will be fabulous. If only the movies were true.

What being in your 20's is actually about, is a lot worse than that. Society has created an ideology that if you're a young person you need to be working everyday but also need to hang out with friends everyday to maintain a happy social life. You need to be an independent woman but you also need to find a man so you can have kids and get married soon. You need to go to the gym all the damn time but you also need to 'boomerang' all the meals you go and eat because it's #AesTheTic. You need to go travelling all the time but you also need to save money to buy a house. You need to be making money out of every hobby you have but you also need time for SELF CARE!!! You need to be Insta famous but also maintain the "a happy life is a private life" mentality.

AND THE LIST GOES ON.

Being in your 20's is difficult as hell because society has created this idea that you need to be living like four different lives at once. It's awful for your mental health but it's great for your CV (or so all the old people tell me). Society has become an oppressive poking finger towards young people as we're peer pressured into believe we can't just be doing one thing at once. We're bullied into believing that if we just sit and relax for an hour we are not good enough. Some have even described being in your 20's as: "when you've gotta make shit happen but all you wanna do is chill". And honestly, I think that's a super realistic way to put it. A lot of people in their 20's work their asses off just to be told they still have 101 things that they need to do/buy/be trying.

The truth is, the possibilites are endless when you're in your 20's and no-one knows what you want to do apart from you. Even then, you don't even have to know what you want to do when you're in your 20's because guess what? YOU DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE TO HAVE YOUR SHIT TOGETHER IN YOUR 20's. Spoiler alert, I know, but society has pressured us into believing that our entire lives should be planned out by the time we're 20. And to that I say: nah.

So, if you think being in your 20's is easy, then you need to think again. And if you think I'm wrong then... ok boomer.