I recall in an email spam where we discussed 30-somethings at the parties that us 20-somethings happened to be at too. A friend said that we could bash him if we found him at a club or party when he was 30-something...cos it was just way too sad.
According to an article i read in this months Cosmo, us 20-somethings seem to be getting younger, partying harder, or resisting long term relationships, even though we are approaching the big 3-0. What a lot of 20-somethings offer is that we are more inclined to finding out who we are and want to "play" for an extra decade before settling down...and i agree.
Think about our parents...once they hit an "appropriate" age, they got married and had kids...paid off the mortgage...and tried to hold the fort down at home with the level of stress at work rising. It would have been very difficult to find some parents who lived their lives before they settled down, and if there is a set of parents who had many adventures before marrying...i think in their time...they would have been considered weird.
Today, if i had said that i wanted to travel around Europe before going to Uni it wouldnt be too weird...only in asian circles would it seem like blasphemy...against your parents wish of you studying medicine/law/pharmacy/optometry/dentistry/finance/accounting/you get my drift...but to be honest, i have mentioned to my mother that before i would even consider settling down...i want to travel the world...i cant wait to do Europe...i think i would especially adore France...only because i can get a handle of the language...hehehe...but anyways...my mother agrees...she encourages me to travel the world...and more so, explore the things that i would like to accomplish.
Im in my early 20s and like i said in the blog before my 23rd birthday, i feel more like im turning 20 than im turning an age that is fast approaching the mid-20s. Im not surprised that there has been this observation that 30 is the new 20. Most people ino now are in their mid-20s or have just past it and are single, carefree, fun-loving, and enjoying life. I saw it in my aunt who is, i think, 32 this year. She has been travelling the world...nurturing her career...and excelling in being a great aunt to her little neice and nephews (the ones younger than me, of course...hehehe).
Im wondering if this has any correllation to the way we were brought up...generation by generation...we sorta had a lil bit of indepedence as kids...a lot of the times we were more innocent and were hidden from the dramas of life...usually at home...id like to think our parents and the schools taught us to be cautious...i was also brought up informed and aware that sometimes it just takes time to find what you want to do and how to go about getting it.
If everyone in the same age gap as i am in, was taught the same things, of course then, we wouldnt be in a rush to get from A to B. Im open to exploration...quite frankly ino im not going to stay in the same industry as far as my career is concerned. But as to what i want to do after IT...i dont know...but i have about a decade to find out before the crunch of having a stable career will really hit me. Thats according to this social observation.
I was considering my younger brother's age group...because he is 6 years younger...and he is always claiming that "things are now different to when you were in high school" to me...when he is in his 20s will their group revert back to the way our parents were? and the new 20 will just be 20?
I say this, much based around my brother and his friends. They are a bunch of 16 y/o with jobs that pay well for a bunch of 16 y/o...im not talking Mc D's...im talking about selling mobiles, and gadgets...while my brother fixes mobile fones. My brother now buys things that he use to ask me to buy for him for his birthday, or Christmas...or "if i wanted to be a good sister"...that would mean a pair of lee jeans...altho he has a hankering for a pair of tsubi's...which i might get him for his birthday...but thats much to be decided upon on whether i want to be a good sister or not, or he may get it before i offer...he has a flavour for Industry clothes, anything urban esp mooks...he is always accessorising - were talking belts, hats, wrist bands, coloured hair gels, etc...he just bought himself a pair of nike bball shoes - the new ol' skool type...and he is currently sporting a mohawk.
Its been peeving me off lately that he thinks he can act like an adult...going to a party at Gas on a Tuesday nite and coming home after 2am on Wednesday...sorry, i dont give a shiet on whether or not its the holidays...kids who are 16 shouldnt be that far from home at that time of nite. What shiets me further is that he didnt ask my parents if he could go, he just said "im going to this party on Tuesday nite."
hmm...this blog isnt about my lil bro's lack of respect and respect for authority in our household...so im gonna move right along...
The point about my lil bro and his friends, in relation to what i intended on writing about, is that because they are more independent now that they are still young...this is much due to the fact that there is a lot of dosh flowing...because they are being more adult-like than perhaps we were at their age...because they are all in long relationships at a tender age...they may foolishly think that they know what they want...and that is, the lot. House, wife, kids and career...and they may go all out and just achieve all those things before they realise that they didnt enjoy life more in their 20s.
Or, his generation may actually find the perfect blend in which my generation seems to be using a 10 year delay tactic to over come - not that it should sound like a bad thing.
I like the fact that it has been widely acknowledged that 30 is the new 20...it gives me more time, the time that i was going to use anyway...but now, i wont look like a sad forlorn spinster working out her life. Now im a trendy 20-something who is only at the start of finding out who she is and enjoying life without anyone querying about it! Except for the dreaded asian community...someone should hurry up and publish an article in the Chinese/Vietnamese Newspapers about & recommending this, and the news will run faster than a fire through a village built out of wood. And then the asians will act like they set the bar for this "30 is the new 20" thing. And then, your parents will come up to you and urge you not to get married so soon and pop out the grand kids!!! *Wishful thinking?*
Hahaha...i should stop being so mean!
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