21!

[luinnil]

Earlier i was asked if being 21 was any different than being 20. The answer i have is i don't know. I don't feel different. I feel as though time seems to be accelerating. And yet i know that it is still moving at the constant speed of the Earth's revolution around the sun. Should i feel different? I feel unaccomplished. I think that by now

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[sacra_imbri]

When I hit 25 and realized that I was still in college I almost had a mid-life crisis... I thought, while growing up, that I would have already had 2 kids, been married many years, and be paying down mortgage by the time I was 25. Life doesn't always plan the same way we do. I no longer want children, and I had a hard lesson this year in the necessity of having debt before you can get debt. That you've made it to 21 at all is a big accomplishment. That you've realized you can take the next life-steps without a steady s/o is an even bigger one. I wish you wonders untold in the next year, and I'll come poke you at the bar tonight... mebe even buy you a shot since you're legal now;)

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[jmattax]

I know at least part of what you feel. I'm single and have been for a while, and was for long before I started that relationship. My friends are great but I'm lonely. Since I know at least some of the people reading this will look at it and say I'm a male, so I'm just horny. I would like to just disagree with that now. If I were just horny there are many options I could/would have taken in the past. I want someone I can talk to, who cares, who's fine with being there for me when I feel like shit and just want to cry. I have many friends here, but I just don't feel like I can open up completely to any of them. The ones I am most comfortable have enough troubles of their own, and from their significant others. I guess that I'm looking for a real;y good female friend and coming up empty. Till around three weeks ago I wasn't as bothered by it, but then I realized that my relationship problems were far enough in the past I wouldn't be burdening someone else with too many of them if I found someone now. I feel like even though I'm about to

[ravendisplayed]

We have this really odd cultural bias that we are "supposed" to be out accomplishing great things, or at least be solidly established, by our early to mid twenties, but at the same time our major social structures are set up to keep us in an extended adolescense for the same amount of time. I think it comes from living in an affluent society that has just finished a peak.