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Your mid 20s are a turbulent time.<\/p>\n

You’ve noticed some major disparities between your youthful expectations of life and its present realities \u2013 you assumed you’d have it all sorted out by now.<\/p>\n

Maybe you’ve already passed through this phase in your life. Maybe it’s yet to come. But if you’re like me, you’ll recognise these aspects in your 20-something-year-old life.<\/p>\n

1. Age 23 is the beginning of the end<\/h3>\n
It’s all well and good for Taylor Swift to be all happy and shit about being 22, the world’s your oyster in your\u00a0early<\/em>\u00a020s. Then you hit 23 and it all goes to sh**, because now you’re straddling the border between early and mid 20s, and there’s only one way you can possibly tip.<\/p>\n
For your 21st birthday, you had a massive party. For your 22nd, you got a ‘woohoo!’ For your 23rd, you were lucky if anyone gave you a nod of acknowledgement.<\/p>\n
Blink 182 got it so right.<\/p>\n
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2. You left university with the certainty that you’d completed the wrong course<\/h3>\n
What were you\u00a0thinking<\/em>\u00a0picking that course? Oh yeah, you weren’t thinking, because at the time you filled out your CAO form you were a child, riding a hormonal rollercoaster, who also had their ever looming Leaving Cert to stress about.<\/p>\n
Who could have known that’d be a bad time to make a life-altering decision?<\/p>\n
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3. Everyone else now seems to be in a relationship<\/h3>\n
And you’re just there like…<\/p>\n
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4. People start having babies<\/h3>\n
Although you’re quite happy to be out of the loop there.<\/p>\n
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5. You suddenly have to start thinking about your health<\/h3>\n
Gone are the days when you could recklessly endanger your body with toxins and junk food without thought of consequence, and still be a functioning human being.<\/p>\n
But having said that, you’re still pretty young, so you don’t have to\u00a0over<\/em>do it.<\/p>\n
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6. Hangovers<\/h3>\n
They’ve gotten worse, and you’ve come to the conclusion that they’re just not worth it anymore.<\/p>\n
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7. As a result, going out gets less and less enticing<\/h3>\n
The thoughts of heading to a club, the sheer\u00a0effort\u00a0<\/em>of it all.<\/p>\n
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8. You really want to be in bed at a reasonable hour these days<\/h3>\n
And you’ve given serious thought to investing in a decent pair of slippers.<\/p>\n
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9. Your friends are at different stages in their lives<\/h3>\n
Half are settled, half are still acting like teenagers. They should call it your\u00a0tween<\/em>ties, amiright?<\/p>\n
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10. You envy your friends who do seem to have their lives together<\/h3>\n
And you’ll find there’s a thin line between envy and resentment.<\/p>\n
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11. You’re ceasing to be ‘with it’<\/h3>\n
To the younger generation, Facebook might seem like a lame, old person social network, while they’re on the hot new thing… and we\u00a0wouldn’t even know<\/em>.<\/p>\n
Besides, we wouldn’t even\u00a0want<\/em>\u00a0to use that new thing because we’d think it’s just for kids, and so the divide widens…<\/p>\n
12. You distrust teenagers<\/h3>\n
Your lack of ‘with it’-ness has left you highly suspicious of those who\u00a0do\u00a0<\/em>know what’s up.<\/p>\n
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13. A big chunk of your friends have fled the country<\/h3>\n
It seems a major part of mid 20s life in Dubai is having your social group dispersed to distant pastures.<\/p>\n
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14. Bills<\/h3>\n
Seriously, how much do bills\u00a0suck<\/em>? Not a fan.<\/p>\n
15. Things you swore you’d never do, you now enjoy<\/h3>\n
You hated those Friday walks you were forced to do as a child, but now you actively seek them out with your friends.<\/p>\n
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16. You discover grey hairs<\/h3>\n
These silvery surprises are an instant reminder of your mortality.<\/p>\n
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17. Or worse, a receding hairline<\/h3>\n
Oh God, you’re losing everything you hold dear, while trying to act cool about it.<\/p>\n
You start to envision follicle nightmare scenarios…<\/p>\n
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18. Decisions are hard<\/h3>\n
It dawns on you that you’ve officially been left to make all your major life decisions by yourself.<\/p>\n
You get nostalgic for those by-gone days, where your life was so structured by others that you had to ask permission to even use the bathroom.<\/p>\n
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19. But then, you realise that other adults don’t have a frickin’ clue either<\/h3>\n
No one does. Even your parents who once seemed all-knowing, they haven’t a\u00a0notion<\/em>. In fact, it’s slightly terrifying that you now know more about the modern world.<\/p>\n
In the end, you just have to say ‘screw it’, and wing it through your 20s.<\/p>\n
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14. Bills<\/h3>\nSeriously, how much do bills\u00a0suck<\/em>? Not a fan.<\/p>\n

14. Bills<\/h3>\n
Seriously, how much do bills\u00a0suck<\/em>? Not a fan.<\/p>\n