There is a certain truth about turning 20 years of age, and I don’t know that I can speak as an expert on the subject but here are 20 things I’ve learned in my short time being 20!
- Being Nice Will Get You Next to Nowhere in Life — Now, I’m not saying that this doesn’t apply to other periods in your life. However, I’ve noticed that being nice in your 20s doesn’t exactly mean being a nice person. People often perceive it is naivety, ulterior motive, or just plain creepy. So be a person who smiles occasionally, does nice things every so often, and is just regular the rest of the time.
- You Can Do More Than You Think — For some reason people in their 20s get stuck in the teen state of mind for a lot longer than is probably healthy. They forget that they can do certain things for themselves, and that they can adult all on their own because they should be doing that. You wanna eat cake for breakfast?! Do it! Own Up to It!
- You Finally Learn The Value of Sleep (But Still Do Not Appreciate It) — You love sleep, you crave it constantly, and yet, you still do not get enough of it because there is just so much life to be had!
- You Learn to Love Coffee or Other Things That Keep You Awake — this one is self explanatory, because I became a barista and I will never go back to not liking coffee…
- When You Tell People Your Age They Will Normally Just Stare Off Wistfully and Convince You You’re Wasting Your Time not Living Enough…
- You Don’t Always Have to Wash Your Hair — it saves time, you have to be creative with new hair dos, and it’s actually better for the health of your hair.
- The Internet will Be the Ruin of You, As it Is Your Best Friend.
- All The Toys you Took for Granted As a Kid Are Doubly Amazing in Your 20s — I want all the toys back, all of them!
- The 15 seconds Netflix gives you before the next episode are no longer spent contemplating whether or not to watch the next episode, but whether or not you have time to go to the bathroom, grab another drink, or some other thing you’re neglecting to do because the show is too awesome.
- Your math skills sharpen to calculate things like how much sleep you’re not getting, if you can go out that night because of the budget, or whether or not you’ll be late if you grab a coffee..
- When shopping you tend to spend like a teeny bopper, but gripe about pricing like a senior citizen.
- You realize there is a correlation between how you feel inside and how you look outside. You try to cover it up, but somehow people always know.
- For some reason, every birthday in your 20s is a milestone. Yay! You made it a whole year with copious amounts of alcohol in your system – let’s celebrate with more!
- There’s a good chance you still do not know how to do your taxes, or that you will not because your parents will take over.
- The illusion of your dream job immediately after graduation fades throughout the years. It becomes background, something that’s there but never truly the focal point until later.
- You can and will experiment with your diet a million and one different ways. Paleo? Vegan? Veg Head? How About all Raw foods?
- A Period of Poverty is inevitable during your 20s. Doesn’t matter the tax bracket you’re from… You’ll cut down at some point during this decade in your life.
- Relationship Statuses become very important for some reason. People need to define exactly what you are and that’s not always so much fun and rainbows.
- You realize your high school problems were so very small in comparison to real life issues. It was all bullshit. Don’t be fooled.
- When asked where you live, you will never truly get an answer. Do you mean where I live or where I’m from? The city, or the region of city? Intersection? Businesses in the general area?
This concludes the things I know about being 20. Perhaps I’ll share more as the year wears on — or perhaps I won’t. I’m not obligated to.
Something else I’ve learned as a 20 year old.
Ciao Bellas y Bellos!
xoxo
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