The secret to surviving and thriving in your 20s is to screw expectations: your power to personal responsibility ratio will never again be so goldenI survived my 20s by staying alive until they were over. whether that sounds facetious,great. It’s also true. The years between 27 and 30 were the hardest of my life, and I wasn’t always sure I would bother getting through them.
I was unemployed, or heavily depressed. My life was directionless. I felt old. Determined to be lonely,I had broken up with my girlfriend, and was sleeping around. My father died. I moved back domestic. Sometimes I would hear a Black Eyed Peas song, and contemplate “This sounds all correct”. It was,in short, a gloomy time.
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Source: theguardian.com