When you hit your late 20's, everything begins to divide. You can see very clearly two kinds of people. On one side, people who have used their 20's to learn and grow, to find themselves, people who know what works and what doesn't, who have pushed through to become real live adults. Then there's the other kind, who are hanging onto college, or high school even, with all their might. They've stayed in jobs they hate, because they're too scared to get another one. They've stayed with men or women who are good but not great, because they don't want to be lonely. Their intentions are to develop intimate friendships, to stop drinking like life is one big frat party but instead they live an extended adolescence, no closer to adulthood than when they graduated.
Don't be like that.
Move. Travel. Take a class, take a risk. DO THINGS OTHER THAN DRINK AND WORK! Don't lose yourself at happy hour, but don't lose yourself on the corporate ladder, either. Stop every once in a while and go out to coffee or climb in bed with your journal and ask some good questions like, "Am I proud of the life I'm living? What have I tried this month? Do people I spend time with give me life or do they make me feel small? Is there anything broken in my life that's keeping me from moving forward?"
Just whatever you do, don't get stuck in this downward spiral of self-pity and stagnant repetition. You're too wise for all that.
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