Is Your 20th Birthday the Most Depressing Bday Of Your Young Life?

Seriously, I had a BLAST in my teens, but my twenties ruled over everything. Those were the best years of my life. Enjoy your new chapter.

 

Says the just-about-20-year-old at home on a Saturday night posting on this bbs.

 

I'd kill to be in my twenties again. Getting older sucks.

 

For me, it was my 28th. You can no longer lie to yourself and say you're in your mid-20's, my first gray hair was noticed, and 30 is looking at you square in the face. Each one since then has been a breeze.

 

Getting out of your teens is awesome, another step to getting past that 21 benchmark. 21-26 is the sweet spot. Enjoy those years.

 

Are you in college? College is doing stupid **** with your high school buddies x1000.

 

28 like someone said is the most depressing day of young life. in-between/akward/irrelevent/fading, all at the same time.

13-19 = Tender
20-25 = BULLETPROOF.

I dont think back to my teenage years that much....

If you're arent, Go to COLLEGE.

The initial shock has got you acting out in emo attention w**** style now. But girls are a lot more free and exploratory, you make your own schedule, you earn your own money if possible. Or you live at home and postpone adulthood another 9 years.

 

hey astros dont worry about it man, your best years are yet to come.

By the way I turn 28 today and share the same birthday as you. if you feel like this right now when your 20 your gonna be seriously F#*$ed up when 8 years from now when you turn my age.

 

Twenties are awesome... you'll get over it.

 

This means time to grow up.

 

My 21st birthday is a little under a month away.
And my life is tuuuuuurrible right now.

Joined the Army when i was 18 and after completing all the 7 months worth of training - i left 3 days before i was posted to a Battalion.. Have regretted it ever since.

For the past 15 months i have been working with Commonwealth Securities which is Australia's largest online stock broker.. Was a ridiculously easy job since i can type 110 words a minute - plus the pay was above excellent for a person as young as me who hadn't spent a day at university in his life..

Yet i left that job and am now in the process of obtaining my British Passport so i can apply for the British Army - because the Australian Army told me to reapply again in another year.

I just wonder how my life would be so much easier if i didn't make the worst mistake and left the Army the first time around....

ehhhhhhh.. being young and stupid.

 

The first thing you have to do when you turn 20 is stop saying "ppl" "idk" and "tomm." You sound like a teenage girl.

 

High school was fun and all, but if that turns out to be the peak of your life then you are really pathetic.

I'm only in my mid 20's, but so far 20's are a lot better than teens.

 

Nine years! Who are you, Van Wilder?

 

I will give the OP the same advice I gave the last whining 20 something -- STFU.

 

I spent my 19th birthday in boot camp and just recently my 23rd in Iraq. Those were pretty depressing.

Look at it this way man; just one more year until you can do just about anything. Legally, anyway.

 

If you are going into your 20th birthday dead certain that the best years of your life were in High School then that attitude will probably turn it into a self fulfilling prophecy. High School was fun because you got to spend a little time with LOTS of people your own age. But when you think about it, 8 hours of your day was strictly regimented into classes that you might or might not have given a crap about.

If you go to college you will have lots of the advantages of High School but you probably will only be in classes maybe 4 hours a day.

If you start working, then you are regimented 8 hours a day again...but at least you are paid for it.

I think when I was 20 I was far too busy looking forward to 21 to mourn the loss of 19.

 

28 is when reality bites ...because at that point when you'll realize that all this crap you envisioned about how your life is gonna turn out has no chance in hell in actually happening.

Before 28, you're still blissfully bouncing along thinking thoughts of partying with friends and opening your own business cause it'll be less stressful.

btw, "opening up your own business" is possibly one of the most stressful things you can do. When your customers get pissed, and they will, you are their whipping boy. Plus customers never like to pay so now you gotta go collect $$$ before all your own bills are past due. Not saying you can't do it, just saying that it is FAR more work to run your own business than getting some corporate job. Oh, if money isn't your motivation, don't open your own business ...because you'll fail. The primary purpose of a business is to earn money.

/soapbox