Don’t get me wrong — this isn’t a complaint; it’s a declaration of truth. Regardless of what stage of your 20s you’re in, people my age often hear comments like “you’re just a baby,” and honestly, yeah, I am. The famous notion that our 20s are the “best years of our lives” is a myth. Our 20s teem with highs and lows — we encounter remarkable, yet also profoundly challenging circumstances. We find ourselves grappling with life’s complexities, feeling as though everything is unfolding all at once.
It’s not as though life miraculously becomes easier at 30, but I want to believe it gradually eases from the frantic pace of now. The challenges of my 20s surfaced early, as life’s course would have it, and though I’m still navigating them, I’ve come to realize I’m not alone in this struggle. This phase is simply a difficult stage of life. Once I realized this, the absurd pressure to make my 20s the best years of my life completely evaporated.
