on your 20s
by réka · updated 17d ago
on your 20s
- Swiss psychologist Marie-Louise von Franz called the "provisional life." ("There is a strange feeling that one is not yet in real life. For the time being, one is doing this or that... [but] there is always the fantasy that sometime in the future the real thing will come about.")
from What if You Never Sort Your Life Out? | Oliver Burkeman by Oliver Burkeman
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- Hello Body! I am home. I'll take care of you.
from How do I love myself? | Thich Nhat Hanh answers questions by Thich Nhat Hanh
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- We’re not the first cohort to experience a crisis. To experience the passing of time. And by passing of time, I mean the dawning realisation that time is finite, and we might have already wasted a lot. We used to have time to burn. But it was a late blooming into misery.
While Gen Xers and Baby Boomers before us had these realisations by 25, for Mil... See morefrom ‘A late blooming into misery’: why Millennials are unhappy by Bride Jabour
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- Figuring out what you want is the central task of adulthood, and it’s not an easy one.
Once you leave formal schooling, you’re catapulted into a world with infinite possibilities. You no longer have to show up at school to avoid detention or ace tests to make your parents proud. You’re finally unshackled from the training wheels of life, and now you... See moreréka added 2mo ago
Many twentysomethings assume life will come together quickly after thirty, and maybe it will. But it is still going to be a different life. We imagine that if nothing happens in our twenties then everything is still possible in our thirties. We think that by avoiding decisions now, we keep all of our options open for later. But not making choices i
... See morefrom The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now by Meg Jay
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- One of the main things you should try to achieve by age 20 is some sense for which kinds of things you enjoy doing. This probably won't change a lot throughout your life and so you should try to discover the shape of that space as quickly as you can.
from Advice · Patrick Collison by patrickcollison.com
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- Like many — dare I say, most — people in their early 20s, I find it hard to shake the feeling that my life is a pinball machine of relationships and opportunities that I’m hurtling through headfirst, knocking over bystanders and crashing into obstacles, unable to stop for long enough to figure out what I’m doing wrong. It is tempting, in this world... See more
from No Good Alone by rayne fisher-quann
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- As the years unfold, you’ll see that all your questions aren’t so urgent. The only ones to care about are the ones you’ll never answer. And you don’t have to get caught up in your plans as you did when you were in your twenties.
from LETTERS FROM LOVE — With Special Guest Pico Iyer!
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something to remind them that life is going to continue on past their twenties, and that it might even be great.
from The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now by Meg Jay
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