When we were in our teens we always thought we are facing the toughest phase in life… of all the things we did our greatest worry was how to load credits to the phone coz we are already broke for the month.. When we reach twenties... we are still broke, irrelevant whether we are earning or not… But the least we are worried about is how much of credit left... Ironically although we spent millions of times at that age looking at the phone thinking “ring dammit ring” now we wish we never had credit and sometimes wish it will stop ringing… Screening calls and conveniently ignoring a ringing phone has become a part of our everyday life…
Suddenly we stop following the trends and fads when we realize it doesn’t suit us… we be bold enough to stand by what we believe in… less influential than we ever were but wondering where we are and what the hell we are doing…
In teens we think falling in love was the greatest thing ever… look forward to experience the greatest feeling in the world.. in twenties we never want to fall in again.. we are terrified of getting hurt like before, but secretly dreaming “maybe that perfect partner would suddenly appear…”
We were confused at that time only about the crushes we had.. but now we are confused about ourselves.. our life.. where it leads and where we want to end up… suddenly we realize we are not strong in our beliefs as we did many years ago. Ambitions we had many years ago are not the same anymore.. We realize the priorities are different than what it used to be and suddenly thinking of all these confuse us…
We suddenly realize we are not strong as we were in your teens, we don’t have faith or belief in ourselves coz we have contradicted ourselves from what we wanted… Ambitions, priorities, likes and dislikes have changed… we feel that we are newly born and growing up…
We remember how we fought with some of our friends vowing ourselves we will never talk back.. Suddenly years later we realize we have given up one of our true real friends up just for some stupid reason… and realize its too late to mend things back coz we have missed many years between our lives..
In teens we always think we are right.. we were so judgmental and full of advice.. we bragged about doing the correct thing in life.. but now we realize that all of us make mistakes, we know we do wrong things, but still do coz that’s what we want to do and accept mistakes of other people as a part of life… sometimes support mistakes without being judgmental…
In teens we were terrified of getting low marks leave aside failing in exam or losing a game.. In twenties we accept failing is a part of life, a part of what we are... and actually grateful for failing coz it made us stronger… and finally when we win, we are genuinely happy for the effort we put in…
We are not afraid of falling to the bottom anymore... coz we have already faced the rock bottom… we try to climb out of it with the strength we have left in life… But like in teens we are still afraid of change... we always wonder how life will change and where it will end up…
Only thing common between then and now is we still laugh a lot… maybe we have learned to laugh through tears better than before… It has come to a point where we still laugh when we are sunk in a world of shit and say “shit happens”
We still try to hang on to our dear old teen age… we still surf through facebook, still making it a habit to sneak peak our most favoured profiles ;) coz we still believe a part of us will always be with us..
We value life for what we blamed in teens… how much of a pathetic cases we ended up in, we value our family, our job, our friends and our life than ever before.. We attempt to hang in there when at times when see everything breaking up… we don’t give up.. we just hang in there accepting life as it comes coz you know its not easy…
We have learned to move on.. to let go… to give up.. to compromise.. to sacrifice… to forgive..to forget.. to love, live and laugh like never before…
its all a part of life in twenties.. quarter life crisis.. ;)
No wonder middle aged people are frustrated.. after all mid life crisis might be at least twice as frustrating as this isn’t it ;)
