After going to the Drive baseball game last week and going out over the weekend, I feel like I can accurately post this. I am quite the creeper when it comes to listening to other's conversations. After church on Sunday, Stu and I joined Taylor at Southern Culture for brunch. It's quite the popular restaurant for young families, couples and college students. I awkwardly stared at a group of college sorority girls sitting close to us, just wishing I could join in their conversation. To know what it's like to be back in college; going out with friends to Thirsty Thursdays; meeting friends for lunch on Sunday with one showing up in the clothes from Saturday night. It's clear that I miss college. I wish I would have lived up my 21st year more, and now I find myself wondering how turning 25 is making me an adult. Whether or not my parents will ever consider me an adult, I am getting older and somewhat wiser.
Left was me as a senior in high school 2008, Right was after our rehearsal dinner 2014.
I find so many things cliche about how others my age act, and then realize I am guilty of most of the same things!
Although I can honestly say I have never watched Netflix.
1. Watch a lot of Netflix
2. Have a familial relationship with the people who work at our local Trader Joe’s, Zoes Kitchen, and/or bar within walking distance of our apartment
3. Complain about how pointless Tinder is while avidly using Tinder
4. Complain about how we can no longer drink copious amounts of alcohol without getting hungover
5. Buy a lot of local beer and/or wine that honestly taste the same as the $6 dollar stuff but that you feel obligated to try because – you know, maturity.
6. Post tweets or status about how crazy the new crop of teens are, when really we were just as bad and we actually miss those days more than you think
7. Spend money like we have more of it than we do
8. Make a big deal about how much more cultured we are since traveling overseas
9. Title drop the deep books we’re reading in social conversations, because we read for knowledge AND fun now, aren’t we cool.
10. Vow to start sending “saving money" which really means maybe we will spend less money when we go out drinking.
11. Reference how much better our childhood was in the 90’s.
12. Give our slightly younger siblings advice as if we’re suddenly so much older & wiser than they are.
13. Feel guilty about not spending more time with our parents while actively avoiding spending more time with our parents
14. Have really aggressive opinions about other people getting married and starting families.
15. Read too many of these list but then pretend we’re really above it all
16. Justify some of still existing bad behavior by jumping on the #YOLO or #TurnDownForWhat bandwagon.
17. Buy plants for our apartments. It seems like the best thing to do but let’s be honest – we can’t take care of plants yet.
18. Whine about how we work too much – just admit you actually like checking your work email when you’re not at work, you’re not fooling anyone.
19. Feel obligated to have some sort direction in our lives
20. Make people in relationships at this age feel like they’re cheating themselves out of some sort of “single in ours 20’s” life experience
21. Give ourselves a hard time about sometimes par taking in the items mentioned above, when we are literally at the half way mark of the most exhausting decade of our lives. We should stop being so hard on ourselves and just say “whatever.”
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