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21 Secrets for Your 20s
1. Never looking at your budget and never making a budget is the exact same thing.
2. The possibility for greatness and
embarrassment both exist in the same space. If you're not willing to be embarrassed, you're probably not willing to be great.
3. Feel no same in seeking help from a counselor or therapist. We all have crap we try to wrap and hide under the Christmas tree. Get rid of it before it smells up your entire holiday.
4. All job listings on Craigslist lead you to a warehouse in downtown LA "wearing something nice with shoes you can walk in".
5. Don't ever, ever check Facebook when you're:
- Depressed
- Drinking
- Depressed and Drinking
- Unemployed
- Anytime after 9:17 pm.
- Struggling with being blessed with
singleness while all your friends
seem to be blessed with 2.4 kids
and that blazing white-picket-
fence shining with all the glory
of Jesus Christ himself.
6. All those amazing college friends you swore you'd never lose contact with after college yeah, well, you might loose contact. Moving all over the country, getting married, having kids, all make that forty-five minute conversation with your sophomore year roommate a little more complicated than it used to be over a game of Mario Kart. Making and
keeping friends in our twenties takes intentionality.
7. Your twenties will produce more
failures than you'll choose to remember. The key is when you fail, don't begin calling yourself a failure.
8. Every break up has two break ups. I'm no physicist, but this is a law of physics, of this I am certain. Yes you'll have the first tearful "It's over" sitting in the front seat of your Honda or on a park swing. Then 1-2 months later after there's "been talk", you'll have the "real breakup" because she forgets to call like she used to or he checks out the waitress likes he's a judge for Miss USA. And gird those loins because in the second breakup there will be a lot more breaking.
9. The
Freshman-Fifteen is nothing compared to the
Cubicle-Cincuenta. Don't sit at your computer perched like a Roman gargoyle. Don't let
office birthday cake be forced on you like a cigarette behind your middle school. Bust out before your butt does.
10. And yes,
cubicles don't make sense to anybody other than upper-management. I would be willing to bet that only 3% of all "Cubicle Americans" actually have a positive outlook on life. And half of the 3% is stealing from their company.
11. If at some point between 22-27 you feel like you're six years old again,
lost and alone at the San Diego Zoo (it's a big-frickin-zoo), frantically searching for a familiar face -
hold tight, you're experiencing a bit of a
Quarter-Life crisis. Stay put. Pray a lot. And in no time someone will call your name across the loud speaker to tell you where you can be found.
12. Reckless drinking and reckless flirting have a direct correlation. Friends don't let friends drive, or flirt, drunk.
13. If you grew up going to church, at some point in your
20s you'll probably stop going to church. If you grew up with faith as a central part of your life, at some point in your twenties faith might move to the outskirts of town next to the trailer park and three-legged squirrel refuge. Your twenties are a process of
making faith your own apart from your parents and childhood. Sometimes that means staggering away so you know what you're coming back to.
14. Don't ever begin dating someone you first met whilst in swimsuits. Doubly-don't if you're both in swimsuits whilst holding an alcoholic beverage.
15.
Obsessive Comparison Disorder is the smallpox of our generation. 9 out of 10 doctors agree this disorder is the leading cause to eating a whole sleeve of Oreo's while watching
Real Housewives of OC. Say no to
obsessive comparison disorder before it starts. Remember everyone's too busy putting a PR spin on their Facebook profile to care much about yours.
16.
Life will never feel like it's "supposed to". Being twentysomething can feel like death by unmet expectations. However, let me be so brash to say that you are right now, at this moment, exactly where you need to be. Buy you'll only be able to see that five years and thirty-eight days from today.
17. You might have your first kid and realize what it's like to be young, a parent, and have no freaking clue what you're doing. And for the first time in your life, you might also actually understand
your parents for the first time.
18. Marriage WILL NOT fix any of your problems. No, instead marriage will put a magnifying glass on how many problems you really have. We grow up carrying bags with our insecurities, fears, bad relationships, problems with our parents - you name it. Begin to ditch these bags now. Newly married and living in a small apartment is no place to store a luggage set full of shiz.
19. An assortment of
crappy jobs are a twenty something rite of passage. Figure out what you need to learn there and learn it. If you don't, an assortment of crappy jobs might be your thirty, forty, and fiftysomething rite of passage as well.
20.
Great ideas alone mean nothing. Your ability to persevere through 16 major setbacks, a lack of passion, forgetting why you started this great idea in the first place, and all the people who allude that
your great idea is actually quite terrible - well, that means everything.
21. The grass is always greener on the other side, until you get there and realize it's because of all the manure.
