why twentysomethings are so fixated on
age is because we feel a pressure to be a certain way at 23, at
25, at 29. There are all of these invisible deadlines with our
careers and with love and drinking and drugs. I can’t do
coke at 25. I need to be in a long term relationship at 27. I
can’t vomit from drinking at 26. I just can’t! We
feel so much guilt for essentially acting our age and making
mistakes. We’re obsessed with this idea of being
domesticated and having our s.hit together. It’s kind
of sad actually because I don’t think we ever fully get a
chance to enjoy our youth. We’re so concerned about doing
things "the right way" that we lose any sense of
pleasure in doing things the wrong way. Youth may be truly
wasted on the young.