Ahh, our twenties. They’re a bit of a weird one, aren’t they? Half of my friends are living at home with their parents, partying every weekend and living large, while the other half are settled down, married with kids. One thing that’s almost certain though? None of us knows what we’re doing.
Things I still don’t know in my twenties
- How much pasta is enough pasta. Has anybody figured this one out yet?!
- How to actually ENJOY running. I feel like we might be getting there. I’ve always been a team sports kinda girl, so running is a little bit lonely. One day I’ll commit to a 10k and teach myself to love running. One day.
- How to do taxes, how to get a
mortgage or anything to do with money for that matter. But we’re learning kids! We’ve purchased our first house, so if there’s any time to learn, it’s now. - How to drink enough alcohol. You know the perfect volume of alcohol to get merry, but not so much that you humiliate yourself and wake up with a banging headache the next morning? Yeah. Still working on that one.
- How to parallel park. I’m totally living up to the fiat 500 driver stereotypes here – I’m sorry.
- Where I want to be this time in 5, 10, or 15 years. I know I want to be happy, in a job I love with the people I love. What exactly that will look like though? No idea.
- How to poach an egg the ~proper~ way. Lifes too short – use the egg poacher.
- Markets, trading… all that finance, technical stuff. Anyone else think they could probably be a millionaire by now if they paid more attention to this?
- How to say no. No. No. No. Stop being a people-pleaser.
- How to accept change. Change is scary. From leaving uni, starting new jobs, losing friends to making friends. It’s all a part of life, but that doesn’t make it any easier.
- How to care for a plant. RIP my previous plant babies x
- How to forget. Remember that super cringey thing that happened in HIGH SCHOOL? Why are you still haunting my thoughts??
- How to take my own advice. Queen of giving advice, but she can’t take any of it herself.
- How to take phone calls. Phone calls are also v. v. scary. What’s so wrong with email?!
- What my style is. Do I like colours? Minimal style? I don’t know?!
- What I want to do with my life. Do I want to be a young professional girl boss earning that dough, or do I want to be a stay at home mum? Who knows.
- How to not overthink. Everything, ever
- How to accept that things won’t always go to plan. Oh, how simpler things would be if they did.
- What my skin type is. (I’m sorry). I mean, I *think* I have an oily skin type, but it’s probably about time I got that confirmed and found out how to really look after it
- How to not care what other people think. I think I need someone to flick that switch off in my brain, plz.
What do you still not know in your twenties?
Lucy x
