Being the youngest is never fun. Being a full year younger than everyone means that you're the last one to drive, the last one to get to see R-rated movies, and now the last one to turn 21. It's a sad, unchangeable fact that will lead to many jokes made at your expense. With this comes the 5 stages of griefs that you will inevitably go through.
1. Denial:
2. Anger:
You have to sit quietly at a restaurant, shooting daggers with your eyes, as your friends they get to order margaritas and you have to order water. Then you consider moving to Europe, Australia, Canada, ANYWHERE where the drinking age is 18.
3. Bargaining:
As in, bargaining (or really begging) with your friends to stay in with you or to go somewhere that doesn’t require two forms of ID.
4. Depression:
Mainly from FOMO. That feeling of sadness you get as your friends post picture after picture of themselves at a bar or club. The fact that everyone starts taking them more seriously now that they are adults and you feel like a 12-year-old compared to them. You ponder this on Thursday nights, especially since they are the nights people go to bars in your college town.
5. Acceptance:
Good things come to those who wait right?
