Twenty-something - yeison.com
If you are over the age of twenty please look away as this may not sit well with you. I have recently come to realise that your twenties are probably the best time of your life. Now, by no means am I saying that your life gets rubbish or boring after your twenties, on the contrary it can be a great and enriching time. But when you really think about it, being twenty means youth, inexperience and freedom because you are an open and unwritten book. When you are in your twenties you see life in such a different way. You yearn for that new experience, you learn so much every day. You feel invincible, like you can do anything and you are aware that life is full of opportunities. You can go out and party till late and still get up early the following day for work or university.
During your twenties, there are so many things that you can do that you could never do before, in fact I have seen so many applications for different things for ages 18-27. Even celebrities truly begin there lives in there twenties, then in there thirties they get replaced by some new hot shot twenty-something year old actor. This is because at twenty, you look young, you look good and at the peak of your life. At twenty-something life tends to be about you and what you want to do.
Your twenties are also a big time to set the trend for the rest of your life, the mentality you are setting up during this age sees you till the end of your life and very few can change their mental attitudes after this point. Of course there are always many exceptions, I know twenty year olds that seem to have skipped that decade out of there life and thirty-somethings that live a twenty year old’s life. But at the end it is about what makes us as individuals happy.
As I write this I am sitting in a Starbucks on the corner of Regent Street and Piccadilly Circus in London. I’m looking out of the window and I see people of all ages walking by. I can’t help but wonder at what stage in there lives these people are because they’re ranging from 8 to 80 years old so imagine if you could see life through their eyes for a day? At twenty-one I have the freedom to travel up and down the country as I please, to experience so many new things, to do almost anything. But will I still have such freedom and openness at thirty-one?
