The Jaded 20s

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i think I'm at a point in my life where all the early experiences of the early 20s are taking their toll. There is a thing some of us have dubbed the Quarter life crisis where in your mid-20s you begin to feel confused about life and where you want it to go.

i always thought once i got passed that part it would be a lot easier as the thirty-something crowd claimed. Yet as i pass the halfway mark towards 28 (thanks Lynn :P) i sense a feeling of bitterness and frustration settling in -- much like i have witnessed in my elders.

Therefore i'd like to dub the late 20s the Jaded period, at least for me. Even as i things i want get clearer it just doesn't seem to get any easier.

- women are more upfront but still have unresolved issues to deal with.
- You have experience, credentials, and connects, but don't know how to use them to where u want to be.
- u realize adults are really mindless conformists and being "out the box" is considered taboo.
- u really don't know ish
- ur younger and older cousins irk you with their narrow-minded banter as they enter their early 20s.

But it's like this is the time you decide to take some control and the leave the rest to whomever u look to for guidance and basically say "i give up" or "I'm gonna make it happen."

Cause i know my problems are meager compared to those leaving in war torn and/or AIDS epidemic countries.