When I think about life, I think about all of the different ages I used to be, all of the ages I will be in the future and my current age. Age helps us gauge certain portions of our lives. When I think about my "twenty somethings" I just think about how weird and awkward the twenties are in general. I honestly think It's the weirdest part of our lives that we live.
When I think about my childhood, I just remember being young and crazy with no cares except when I got to go school supply shopping and how I wanted the purple Powerpuff Girl lunchbox, not the pink one. Your child years are your time to just be you and not have to have any of your shit together. You were allowed to be a trainwreck but you honestly had nothing that caused you to be a trainwreck. Your teen years have the normal teenage stresses of puberty and growing up a little to prepare yourself for college. Then you get to your twenties and you don't even remember what it's like to not be a complete mess. You enter this cloud of insanity that pulls you in 50 different directions, making your head spin out of control. So much stuff happens to you in your twenties: you're in college, you graduate from college, you have serious relationships with people, hard break ups, you magically turn into an adult somehow and are expected to have most of your life together. You go from college where everything's stressful but fun to moving somewhere new, finding a job and being poor and feeling low then feeling high. Some people get married in their twenties, they have babies and others don't. People move to new places, go back to school, get their first jobs. The twenties is where we build our foundation for life.
Now I'm in the early stages of my twenties still so I still have a while to go but based on the 4 years that I've been a "twenty something", so much stuff has happened. More emotions and stress in 4 years than all of my teen years combined. I know I can't predict the future but based on observation, the thirties don't seeem as crazy. The thirties seem to be the time when life finally calms down a little for the majority of people. You don't have your college graduation looming behind you (it's way behind you now), you probably have a steady job, maybe even a family, you don't have to start your life from scratch, it's been started for a while now. Sure, all of those things have their own stressors and they make you crazy. Each age you experience in life is different and weird in its own way but the twenties are just so unique in the weirdness.
I guess what I'm trying to get at is that the twenties is the time in your life where the unexplainable stuff just happens and keeps happening. The stuff you can't describe or explain in any way. The time where you're still discovering yourself and what you want to be, what you want to do with your life. You're still young enough to be a trainwreck, but old enough to "be and adult" and figure some stuff out I've spent so much time wondering what I'm supposed to be doing at this point in my life and honestly I'm just figuring out that the twenties are just a weird and confusing haze that we are in and we might as well just enjoy it and go with the flow.
Because your twenties are just weird.
