This week I have been struck by the joys as well as frustrations of being a twenty-something or even a thirty-something in our fast-paced, social media obsessed, deep but shallow, grown-up but juvenile sub-world of all those unmarrieds with no kids. To be twenty-something is to be unattached but needy, adventurous but searching for a home, and trying to be an individual when social expectations seem to indicate otherwise. The quotes below reflect my meager attempt to sort out "the appetizer years" of life.
Every woman in her late 20s goes through a period where she just doesn't believe love is out there anymore, but it is. And I think the minute you stop looking for it is when it comes for you.
~ Kristen Bell
When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.
~ Chaka Khan
26 shows up in the middle of coffee one morning and hands you a freshly printed memo that reads: "You're going to get old one day and die. You're cool for now, but it will happen. You're officially on notice. You won't be young forever." And then 26 struts out of your office, like an unconcerned dick, having nonchalantly just changed your entire perspective.
~ Jessica Blankenship
Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties...I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.
~ Lena Dunham
You'll enter your twenties as a fashion disaster and (hopefully) leave them looking fantastic. If you don't know how to put yourself together by then, I really don't know what to tell you.
~ Ryan O'Connell
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
~ Steven Wright
~ Laura Jennings
Being twenty-something is all about taking it in: eating it, drinking it, and spitting out the seeds later. It's about being fearless, and stupid, and dangerous, and unfocused, and abandoned. It's about being in it, not on top of it.
~ Jodie Foster
Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.
~ Johnny Carson
Why is it so impossible to understand how incredible a time it is to be alive, and to be young? Why is it easier to complain about the downsides of realizing our dreams and growing into ourselves than to sing the praises of being healthy and loved enough to have it? I don't want the nostalgia and possibly, the regret of not living in the moment, to hit me all at once like a ton of bricks when I'm past the point of recreating it. I want to feel the full joy of decorating my first real apartment, of making new friends while out having drinks, of saying "I want to move" and being able to pick up and do it. The aching to return to these days of relative ease and adventure is sure to wave over us at some point, and though forgetting that is too easy, it wouldn't hurt to appreciate what we have while we have it.
~ Mahalkiax3.tumblr