In Love with 20’s
The twenties is a fantastic age
bracket to be in. This is when you are not too young to be dismissed and not too
old to be entrusted. You can look down on teenagers as immature and still not
be called an uncle. At the same time, you don’t shy away from nagging the 30
pluses by calling them, uncles and aunts J.
We spend the early twenties in
universities which gifts us with the best memories of a life time. This time of
the life will be always remembered very fondly. A little later, we land our
first job. There is a heady sense of achievement for that job would have been
the first thing most of us would have achieved on our own. This is when we taste financial independence
and the realization sinks in that nothing liberates you like self earned money!
A little while in to the first job,
begins the new found introspection. For many of us, this will be the first time
in Life when we actually face an identity crisis. One might be good at the job
or not at all. It doesn't matter. For the first time in Life, we are faced with
no milestone to achieve. Let me be more specific. There is no milestone set by
parents or society for us. We are presented with a real choice. All through it,
is a struggle to find out who we really are? We are struggling to figure out as
to what will make us happy in the true sense of the word.
Job begins to become a constant in
Life. This is when all the “Studying was fun” train of thought chugs in and
some of us begin to think of a higher education. Some
of us go back to college and some of us get married. Both are good distractions.
By now, we would have crossed the
half mark of the twenties. This is when we begin to get comfortable in our own
skin. We are still open to ideas. Age has not managed to make us so arrogant
that we turn in to a “I have seen life enough” mode. But by then, we are
completely free of the insecurities of the teenage and have begun to accept one
self. Give it two more years, and you will understand who you really are. You
will forgive yourself for your vices and would have identified your virtues.
This is a time when you live life
with some sense of curiosity of a child still intact yet with a self assurance
that only age can lend.
Arun Babu.
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