What 20-Somethings Want

Thought Catalog. Found this one and wanted to share a few excerpts! 

You want to be “stable” and see yourself make real progress. You would love to find the key to adulthood (Um, I think I saw it at Crate & Barrel next to the colanders) and not want to get drunk at happy hour anymore. It’s quickly turning into unhappy hour and you’re trying hard not to become a casualty of your age. You want nothing more than just to make it through the twentysomething rain and land on a nice job, a nice couch that wasn’t purchased from IKEA... 

You want to know that you’re not insane, that there are other 24-year-olds who have never been in a relationship before, or that other people have {drunk too much} and vomited on their taxi driver before and it’s all okay because this is growing up. Or something. You’re not actually sure. You never received an official manual but you figure that this is what it’s all about... 

You just want to know that the things you’re going through aren’t unique, that other people are in the same rickety brokedown palace of a boat. I mean, you don’t mind being crazy so long as there are people out there who are equally as psycho. You’d prefer it if they were actually crazier than you, so you could feel good about yourself and where you’re at in your life. 

You want a job, a vacation, heath insurance, validation, a back rub, a scalp massage at the place where you get your haircut, people who are jealous of you, an ex who won’t stop texting you when {they've been drinking}, Twitter followers, happiness maybe sorta, someone to buy you lunch at a fancy restaurant, a mentor who can tell you what the hell to do with your life, a reliable internet connection, a reliable human connection, a gift card to the grocery store, dinner parties with friends where everyone will pretend to have their crap together for just one night, a nice flirty text message to wake up to every morning for the rest of your life, for everyone to like you even if you don’t like anyone, and one of those nights that doesn’t end till 9 AM and reminds you what it feels like to be young and alive. Oh, and $$$. 

That’s all. Think you can get that for me? For us?

You may laugh, but it's true. So, so true. I thought my 20s would be a time where I acquired all of the things I've always wanted. A job, a place of my own. And I'm sure it will be. But I've learned there's a whole lot more to it. Being a 20-something means you don't know what in the world you're actually doing with your life and you're scrambling to figure it out before you're a 30-something. You're chasing after something and you don't know when you'll attain it. You want what you can’t have, right? It’s all about trying to attain the things we desire, whether it be our dream job or a dream relationship. At the same time. And a place of your own. 


Or is that just me?