Being In Your 20s - Tumblr Posts
being in your early 20s is crazy bc there’s people who are literally married and people who’ve never even dated and people who are trapped in their childhood bedrooms waiting to get out and people who are trying to live out romanticized dream lives and people who are completely on their own and people with multi tiered support systems and we’re all supposedly peers and none of us think we’re doing it right at all
Being a young adult is so strange. You enter a coffee shop. The 20 year old girl waiting behind you cried all night because she just came to a new city for university and she feels so alone. That 27 year old guy over there works a job he is overqualified for, he lives with his parents and wants to move out but doesn't know what to do about it. That one 24 year old dude already has a car, a house, and a job waiting for him once he graduates thanks to his dad's connections. The 26 year old barista couldn't complete his higher education because he has to work and take care of his family. The 28 year old girl sitting next to you has no friends to go out with so she is texting her mother. That couple (both 25 years old) are married and the girl is pregnant. The 29 year old writing something on her laptop has realized that she chose the wrong major so she is trying to start all over. We are not alone in this, but we are actually so alone. Do you feel me
i’m no expert but like wouldn’t your soulmate want to be in a relationship with you
do you ever gain this brief awareness while on a dating app that, like, here we all are posing and posturing to the best of ability trying to find love and yet we all just casually swipe through each other?
i mean this is another human being I'm looking at and yet I just go "too short, too boring, too preppy, too ugly" like what the fuck?? i am dehumanizing people in search of human connection and wondering why i feel lonely?
but then my awareness fades and i go right back to swiping and i just--i don't know. i don't have some grand point to make here other than that something feels wrong and i don't know how to fix it
why do cis men need mushrooms to discover basic empathy