I’m 23 and agree with some of your points. It is very hard to make friends once you’re no longer surrounded by classmates, the only friends I’ve made post-school were friends of existing friends and a girl I met, as you said, through work.
I’m also fed up of everything feeling like a competition, who has the best job, the best relationship, the best car, the best future prospects... I could go on. Some people don’t even try to hide it in humble brags anymore, a girl literally said to me the other day, “My life is going the best out of anyone in this group.” Seriously?
It’s worth remembering the old but true cliché though, boasting stems from insecurity.
I’m not sure I understand your point about the things your peers judge you for. Could you elaborate on what you mean by “not a “real adult””?
All in all I agree with the gist of what you’re saying, most people in their early/mid 20s are still immature and painfully oblivious to it.
They treat me as if I am a child and not as adult as them because I'm not doing the same things they are (getting engaged, married, and/or pregnant). I just don't feel ready and don't even want to date at the moment, and for some reason that bothers them and then they end up treating me like I'm immature for it. Yet, they want to bring babies into the world when they're flat broke and have no way of supporting one, but I'm the immature one.
It's like they think life is a game and everyone is supposed to do all of this stuff together or else they're "childish". I don't want to do any of those things because everyone else I know is, I want to do them if/when I feel ready, you know?
IIN that I hate being young?
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I’m 23 and agree with some of your points. It is very hard to make friends once you’re no longer surrounded by classmates, the only friends I’ve made post-school were friends of existing friends and a girl I met, as you said, through work.
I’m also fed up of everything feeling like a competition, who has the best job, the best relationship, the best car, the best future prospects... I could go on. Some people don’t even try to hide it in humble brags anymore, a girl literally said to me the other day, “My life is going the best out of anyone in this group.” Seriously?
It’s worth remembering the old but true cliché though, boasting stems from insecurity.
I’m not sure I understand your point about the things your peers judge you for. Could you elaborate on what you mean by “not a “real adult””?
All in all I agree with the gist of what you’re saying, most people in their early/mid 20s are still immature and painfully oblivious to it.
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They treat me as if I am a child and not as adult as them because I'm not doing the same things they are (getting engaged, married, and/or pregnant). I just don't feel ready and don't even want to date at the moment, and for some reason that bothers them and then they end up treating me like I'm immature for it. Yet, they want to bring babies into the world when they're flat broke and have no way of supporting one, but I'm the immature one.
It's like they think life is a game and everyone is supposed to do all of this stuff together or else they're "childish". I don't want to do any of those things because everyone else I know is, I want to do them if/when I feel ready, you know?