23 is an awkward age. You are expected to act like a fully functioning adult, but are severely under-qualified for the job. You find yourself calling your mother daily for advice ranging from how to steam vegetables to what balancing your checkbook actually entails. Which leaves you feeling so inadequate you decide to drown your sorrows in a tub of Ben & Jerry's, while ugly-crying to an episode of "Grey's Anatomy." Somehow the difference between 22 and 23 is so strikingly different it sends you into a tailspin of a quarter-life crisis. And with the following list of reasons it's easy to understand why.
1. You've never had so little direction and so much debt in your life.
2. This picture is supposed to comfort you but it doesn't.
3. Shopping at Forever 21 feels like a lie.
4. Hangovers are real now.
5. You silently sob into your glass of wine when you realize some of the contestants on "The Bachelor" are younger than you.
6. Your Facebook feed is filled with engagements and babies which makes you hate people.
7. You're at a constant war between wanting to go out and wanting to stay in binge-watching "Friends" for the 100th time.
8. Your entire paycheck is devoted to bills.
9. The phrase, "I don't want to adult today," has been so overused it has basically lost all meaning.
10. You feel ridiculous for freaking out about being 23.
11. Your body is starting to reject your typical diet of ramen and frozen pizza.
12. And the worst reason of all...you can no longer sing this song with conviction.
