When you're going into your 20s, you're told by everyone that these will be the worst and best times of your life. It'll be the most fun and life-changing experience, but you will find every possible way to screw things up in ways you didn't even know was possible.
I'm actually not even 20 yet, I still have a long six months until then. But I am absolutely and completely terrified.
I already feel like this is the most trying and confusing time of my life, and that I already complicate my life on a daily basis from over-drafting my bank account, to failing the most irrelevant World Religions course, to laying in bed at night thinking, "Wow, I'm in a dead-end major and probably won't have a job when I graduate but it's a-okay." Not to mention the fact, I'm one of those people who can never suck up my pride and ask for help, so I then proceed to try to fix things on my own and in the end, usually make it worse for myself, but it's no big deal.
Then, you put aside your financial situation — or lack of — and your education, and now you're also left with your social life — YAY... not. Now, this is the BEST one because now you don't have one due to the fact that you're broke and have over 50 homework assignments to do because well, they weren't due until the end of the semester and now it's here... but it's Tequila Tuesday, am I right?! And after those few shots of tequila, you sit around with your friends trying to figure out why every guy in his 20-somethings is an ass with commitment issues like its some sort of intricate calculus problem. (Tequila Tuesdays are never a good time to do math). So now, you feel like a broke, hungover, over-stressed, single potato that disappoints your family and is probably going to be homeless after college, if you ever graduate.
But then some magical things happen and it gives you hope.
You see a friend get an acceptance letter to Grad school. Someone from back home gets engaged. Your co-worker gets an internship in their field. A sorority sister graduates. Someone else has a baby. Your best friend makes honor roll.
You forget that you're not the only one, and this is the exact reason why people say your 20-somethings are the best and the worst. You'll hit your lows, do some really, really, dumb stuff, come across obstacles that you've never faced. But if you're smart, you'll learn from these mistakes and barriers, so that when you face them again, maybe you'll be a bit wiser, even if it means to not scroll through Facebook during class no matter how monotone the professor's voice is. That's still a lesson learned.
You start watching people you know lives' start to fall into place when you know a year ago they were also up for three days straight studying for a final that they ended up failing, just like you. It's a great feeling seeing other people who were going through it, come out on the other side, because chances are no matter how bad you're screwing everything up right now, you will too.
