Originally sent into The Metro it didn't get published in the end however I still thought it was too good to be kept in a word document. So I have published it here!
The mid- twenties is an odd age to be. You are not 18
anymore but you don’t feel like a ‘proper’ grown up either. Here are some
thoughts every mid twenty person has gone through.
OMG what have I done
with my life?
All the fun milestones such as hitting 16, 18 and 21 are
long gone and you have caught yourself thinking on more than one occasion how
things have turned out the way they have.
Knowing when people
talk about young people it doesn’t mean you.
You will never be the next generation of athletes or people
who will change the world because you are so damn old.
You take every
advantage of every opportunity because you have missed enough of them already.
You wonder what path you could have gone down if you did
take that drama class 15 years ago or done more hobbies at school.
Seeing younger people
than you achieve so much and thinking why did I spend so much time watching
telly in the school holidays.
Laura Trott achieved two Olympic golds and numerous world
titles by the time she was 20. I was still wondering what I was going to do
with my life at that point.
You have had that
quarter life crisis at some point.
All exacerbated by the above.
You feel like you
should have your life together.
When someone gets a better job than you even if you are
perfectly happy in your own job you can’t help feel that you should be rushing
up the career ladder.
People around you are settling down and it is perfectly ok.
Your friends and close people around you are settling down
and it's not seen as a bad or risky thing to do.
Taking photos seem a
little harder as many poses you would do in your late teens you wouldn't dream
of doing now.
Even taking a selfie seems odd and you wouldn’t think of
pouting anymore.
The prospect of
getting older is very real.
Being thirty is not that far away now and it is weird that
ten years ago you were most likely to have been finishing up GCSEs or sixth
form.
University is so long
ago.
Knowing that the recent graduates started university when I
had just finished is just sad, it felt like yesterday you were larking around
halls and going out clubbing.
Finally although becoming older may seem scary you do also
appreciate that it is a privilege and you enjoy the journey that comes with it.
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