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In Our Early 20s, Let's Be Honest, We Are All Searching For More Out Of Life

We keep striving for more, are told to do more, but at the end of the day we are all just trying know ourselves and one another.

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In Our Early 20s, Let's Be Honest, We Are All Searching For More Out Of Life
Sydney Gray

Maybe it’s the numerous amounts of birthdays happening during these past weeks. Maybe it’s the constant push to figure out what to do with the future. Maybe it’s Maybelline…kidding. Whatever it is, it makes entering the the age of twenties and leaving the teen years somehow nostalgic, as though growing up with the TV shows that are no longer on TV and the pop/hip-hop songs that are now turning 10, 11, or 12 years old heighten this sense that seeing or listening to those things again for the first time will never be regained.

There’s so much newness happening all around people in a time where technology is changing the way we think and speak to each other. The stuff we grew up with is now coming with us as we step into a new year from the teens to what others consider the true first moments of our adult stage.

Where did that time go and how is it possible that this what has shaped us into the human beings that we are today were moments of yesterday?

Not only the transition from one age to another can feel life-changing to some, but especially in college it knows how to create more thought-provoking realizations that come with you in this new mindset of being 20. In college, you are figuring out how to balance academic life and the personal life.

Trying to understand how you can maintain those grades with a possible internship/job in mind while also meeting new people and going out with friends. An onslaught of events that don’t necessarily give one time to think about what’s happening in their mind.

Life is a crazy phenomenon.

One second you could be in this new part of your life and the next that new turns into the old. Although my twenties haven’t been reached, it’s giving me some thought into what that part of life will be like. This is an unpopular opinion especially coming from a girl who doesn’t want to grow up, but I've been finding the thirties to be an intriguing part of life, or maybe that’s the brain of a girl who has been binge watching "Sex in the City" for the past few weeks.

Whatever the case, there is a constant need for wanting more, and perhaps is strengthened when the realization hits that after the grand number of 20 comes about, then you have to figure out what you are really going to do with the rest of your life. There’s no longer the safe landing of knowing exactly what will happen once you go home for break or see your family members, because although you can still do that after graduation, there’s a bigger part of the story now.

One minute you are 17 or 18 going into college, the next you are preparing for the latter half of college, and then you are at the finish line with that part of your life. In the age of the beginning twenties there is so much to learn and so much to explore, and life is constantly on the move, waiting for no one.

So maybe it is the number of birthdays that keep popping up on my timeline lately or maybe it’s the people who are talking about the internships or the seniors that are graduating this year. The twenties are the beginning of a new chapter in your life while a constant nostalgic reminder of all the years that came before this exact moment.

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