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riverbound
03-21-2007, 06:21 AM
Being Twenty-Something...
They call it the "Quarter-life Crisis." It is when you stop going
along with the crowd and start realizing that there are many things
about yourself that you didn't know and may not like. You start
feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but
then get scared because you barely know where you are now.
You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those
friends that you thought you were so close to aren't exactly the
greatest people you have ever met, and the people you have lost
touch with are some of the most important ones. What you don't
recognize is that they are realizing that too, and aren't really
cold, catty, mean or insincere but that they are as confused as you.
You look at your job...and it is not even close to what you thought
you would be doing, or maybe you are looking for a job and realizing
that you are going to have to start at the bottom and that scares
you.
Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing
and find yourself judging more than usual because suddenly you
realize that you have certain boundaries in your life and are
constantly adding things to your list of what is acceptable and what
isn't.
One minute, you are insecure and then the next, secure. You laugh
and cry with the greatest force of your life. You feel alone and
scared and confused. Suddenly, change is the enemy and you try and
cling onto the past for dear life, but soon realize that the past is
drifting further and further away, and there is nothing to do but
stay where you are or move forward.
You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do
such damage to you. Or you lie in bed and wonder why you can't meet
anyone decent enough that you want to get to know better. Or maybe
you love someone but love someone else too and cannot figure out why
you are doing this because you know that you aren't a bad person.
One-night-stands and random hook ups start to look cheap. Getting
wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic.
You go through the same emotions and questions over and over, and
talk with your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem
to make a decision. You worry about loans, money, the future and
making a life for yourself... and while winning the race would be
great, right now you'd just like to be a contender!
What you may not realize is that everyone reading this relates to
it. We are in our best of times and our worst of times, trying as
hard as we can to figure this whole thing out. Send this to your
twenty-something friends... maybe it will help someone feel like
they aren't alone in their state of confusion...
"I bend but I do not break"

Trailer Park Casanova
03-21-2007, 07:45 AM
Being Twenty-Something...
They call it the "Quarter-life Crisis." It is when you stop going
along with the crowd and start realizing that there are many things
about yourself that you didn't know and may not like. You start
feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but
then get scared because you barely know where you are now.
You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those
friends that you thought you were so close to aren't exactly the
greatest people you have ever met, and the people you have lost
touch with are some of the most important ones. What you don't
recognize is that they are realizing that too, and aren't really
cold, catty, mean or insincere but that they are as confused as you.
You look at your job...and it is not even close to what you thought
you would be doing, or maybe you are looking for a job and realizing
that you are going to have to start at the bottom and that scares
you.
Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing
and find yourself judging more than usual because suddenly you
realize that you have certain boundaries in your life and are
constantly adding things to your list of what is acceptable and what
isn't.
One minute, you are insecure and then the next, secure. You laugh
and cry with the greatest force of your life. You feel alone and
scared and confused. Suddenly, change is the enemy and you try and
cling onto the past for dear life, but soon realize that the past is
drifting further and further away, and there is nothing to do but
stay where you are or move forward.
You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do
such damage to you. Or you lie in bed and wonder why you can't meet
anyone decent enough that you want to get to know better. Or maybe
you love someone but love someone else too and cannot figure out why
you are doing this because you know that you aren't a bad person.
One-night-stands and random hook ups start to look cheap. Getting
wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic.
You go through the same emotions and questions over and over, and
talk with your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem
to make a decision. You worry about loans, money, the future and
making a life for yourself... and while winning the race would be
great, right now you'd just like to be a contender!
What you may not realize is that everyone reading this relates to
it. We are in our best of times and our worst of times, trying as
hard as we can to figure this whole thing out. Send this to your
twenty-something friends... maybe it will help someone feel like
they aren't alone in their state of confusion...
"I bend but I do not break"
Is this your orig thought?
If so,, very well thought and written.
I think you're right on.
When ya hit forty something, ya feel good in your own skin,, and it all seems to make better sense,, that is,, all the above but moreso.
But I'd say you hit it right on the mark.:D :D :D :D

DSW
03-21-2007, 08:14 AM
Wow... I'm 27 and thats my life! Good to read that I'm not the only one going through a 1/4 life crisis!:D

boatnam2
03-21-2007, 08:18 AM
damm that is heavy....

DILLIGAF
03-21-2007, 08:23 AM
Friggin' sensitive people...and shit
:)

riverbound
03-21-2007, 08:29 AM
Is this your orig thought?
If so,, very well thought and written.
I think you're right on.
When ya hit forty something, ya feel good in your own skin,, and it all seems to make better sense,, that is,, all the above but moreso.
But I'd say you hit it right on the mark.:D :D :D :D
No its not. its a repost, but I read it and it fit quite well.

Bense468
03-21-2007, 08:42 AM
I with ya on this. I'm 27 and sunk with all of that.

riverbound
03-21-2007, 08:46 AM
Friggin' sensitive people...and shit
:)
F-DILLIGAF :D

SummitKarl
03-21-2007, 08:46 AM
No its not. its a repost, but I read it and it fit quite well.
drink tequila and 151 in your 20s and when you hit 40...you won't remember a bit of your 20's:) ...it worked for me:D

RiverDave
03-21-2007, 11:37 AM
Being Twenty-Something...
They call it the "Quarter-life Crisis." It is when you stop going
along with the crowd and start realizing that there are many things
about yourself that you didn't know and may not like. You start
feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but
then get scared because you barely know where you are now.
You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those
friends that you thought you were so close to aren't exactly the
greatest people you have ever met, and the people you have lost
touch with are some of the most important ones. What you don't
recognize is that they are realizing that too, and aren't really
cold, catty, mean or insincere but that they are as confused as you.
You look at your job...and it is not even close to what you thought
you would be doing, or maybe you are looking for a job and realizing
that you are going to have to start at the bottom and that scares
you.
Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing
and find yourself judging more than usual because suddenly you
realize that you have certain boundaries in your life and are
constantly adding things to your list of what is acceptable and what
isn't.
One minute, you are insecure and then the next, secure. You laugh
and cry with the greatest force of your life. You feel alone and
scared and confused. Suddenly, change is the enemy and you try and
cling onto the past for dear life, but soon realize that the past is
drifting further and further away, and there is nothing to do but
stay where you are or move forward.
You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do
such damage to you. Or you lie in bed and wonder why you can't meet
anyone decent enough that you want to get to know better. Or maybe
you love someone but love someone else too and cannot figure out why
you are doing this because you know that you aren't a bad person.
One-night-stands and random hook ups start to look cheap. Getting
wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic.
You go through the same emotions and questions over and over, and
talk with your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem
to make a decision. You worry about loans, money, the future and
making a life for yourself... and while winning the race would be
great, right now you'd just like to be a contender!
What you may not realize is that everyone reading this relates to
it. We are in our best of times and our worst of times, trying as
hard as we can to figure this whole thing out. Send this to your
twenty-something friends... maybe it will help someone feel like
they aren't alone in their state of confusion...
"I bend but I do not break"
Your a queer aren't ya Billdo.. Considering a life change?
:D
RD

riverbound
03-21-2007, 11:43 AM
Your a queer aren't ya Billdo.. Considering a life change?
:D
RD
:eek: :eek: :eek:
RD SUX !! :D

Sleek-Jet
03-21-2007, 11:53 AM
I think I need a hug now...

TBONE1904
03-21-2007, 11:56 AM
Being Twenty-Something...
They call it the "Quarter-life Crisis." It is when you stop going
along with the crowd and start realizing that there are many things
about yourself that you didn't know and may not like. You start
feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but
then get scared because you barely know where you are now.
You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those
friends that you thought you were so close to aren't exactly the
greatest people you have ever met, and the people you have lost
touch with are some of the most important ones. What you don't
recognize is that they are realizing that too, and aren't really
cold, catty, mean or insincere but that they are as confused as you.
You look at your job...and it is not even close to what you thought
you would be doing, or maybe you are looking for a job and realizing
that you are going to have to start at the bottom and that scares
you.
Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing
and find yourself judging more than usual because suddenly you
realize that you have certain boundaries in your life and are
constantly adding things to your list of what is acceptable and what
isn't.
One minute, you are insecure and then the next, secure. You laugh
and cry with the greatest force of your life. You feel alone and
scared and confused. Suddenly, change is the enemy and you try and
cling onto the past for dear life, but soon realize that the past is
drifting further and further away, and there is nothing to do but
stay where you are or move forward.
You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do
such damage to you. Or you lie in bed and wonder why you can't meet
anyone decent enough that you want to get to know better. Or maybe
you love someone but love someone else too and cannot figure out why
you are doing this because you know that you aren't a bad person.
One-night-stands and random hook ups start to look cheap. Getting
wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic.
You go through the same emotions and questions over and over, and
talk with your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem
to make a decision. You worry about loans, money, the future and
making a life for yourself... and while winning the race would be
great, right now you'd just like to be a contender!
What you may not realize is that everyone reading this relates to
it. We are in our best of times and our worst of times, trying as
hard as we can to figure this whole thing out. Send this to your
twenty-something friends... maybe it will help someone feel like
they aren't alone in their state of confusion...
"I bend but I do not break"
Damn allot of truth...I like the one night stand part!!

Boatcop
03-21-2007, 11:57 AM
Damn. :jawdrop:
That came 33 years too late. :(
:D

djunkie
03-21-2007, 12:00 PM
Your a queer aren't ya Billdo.. Considering a life change?
:D
RD
:eek: :eek: :eek:
RD SUX !! :D
Fags!!!! :jawdrop: :jawdrop: :D

Magic34
03-21-2007, 12:05 PM
I only felt that 2 paragraphs fit me.
Guess that means I made it through or haven't hit it yet. :confused:

djunkie
03-21-2007, 12:13 PM
I only felt that 2 paragraphs fit me.
Guess that means I made it through or haven't hit it yet. :confused:
Damm kid!!!!:D :D

RiverDave
03-21-2007, 12:16 PM
I only felt that 2 paragraphs fit me.
Guess that means I made it through or haven't hit it yet. :confused:
Well when your living the ballers life, sometimes lifes trials and tribulations are on a little different level then normal peeps. ;)
RD

kindsvatercurt
03-21-2007, 01:44 PM
drink tequila and 151 in your 20s and when you hit 40...you won't remember a bit of your 20's:) ...it worked for me:D
I don't think thats why you don't remember your 20's :idea: ;)

DaddyMack
03-21-2007, 01:56 PM
One-night-stands and random hook ups start to look cheap. Getting
wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic.
This starts up again in your forties.... especially if you become single after a long marriage.. FYI :devil:
"I bend but I do not break"
hmmm you are talking about the girls right??? :)

HCS
03-21-2007, 02:27 PM
20 SOMETHING!!! What the hell is that?
When you turn 40 you'll realize you should have kicked everyone ass when you were younger.
Then when you turn 50 you will.

bruddah
03-21-2007, 03:40 PM
definately a good find and lots of true points...

RUSSO
03-21-2007, 04:36 PM
20 SOMETHING!!! What the hell is that?
When you turn 40 you'll realize you should have kicked everyone ass when you were younger.
Then when you turn 50 you will.
I AM 27 AND THIS HOW I THINK NOW!!!HAHAHA

Magic34
03-21-2007, 04:53 PM
Well when your living the ballers life, sometimes lifes trials and tribulations are on a little different level then normal peeps. ;)
RD
Not a baller. Just over-compensating. That was 1 of the 2. :D

Mrs. 20
03-21-2007, 05:16 PM
I'm 27 too. I feel like I went thru this in my earlier 20's though. It's kind of sappy.