I’m finding my twenties to be a dynamic, transitional, and often confusing time. You see, we’re floating along in a social purgatory between being “the kid” and “the adult” in a situation, the distinction usually being determined by whom we’re dealing with and our relative level of laziness. To those in college, we’re too old to be doing just about everything fun. To “adults,” we’re inexperienced, too unwrinkled for our own good, and not on their level in work or, really, life.
So, what’s a twenty-something to do? My friend Jess and I have boiled it down to needing to be a Productive Member of Society, meaning that you make your own money, show up when you should within five minutes of when you said you would, treat others with respect, stop partying with the college kids and interns, and take responsibility for your actions. It’s pretty much the nicer way of saying that you can have fun, but you need to act like a “grown-a** woman.”
Maybe our twenties are a blessing. We have license to shift between life stages at will, but while using the knowledge and skills we’ve learning by getting to this age (alive).
2 comments:
I worked for 30 plus years. Now I am on disability due to brain cancer/ epilepsy and my son is severly autistic. Neither of us will be "making money" or can drive. does that makes us unproductive members of society? I do help out at home and help support my wife emotively and thank God i still have a sense of humor - so she says I make her smile. Just wondering your take on wether that "counts" in being "productive?"
I completely agree with your comment. Of course you're a "productive member of society." This post was about the transition between youth and adulthood. I wrote this when I was in my late twenties when I still had party-girl friends who lived off of their parents and couldn't manage to take responsibility for themselves or manage to be dependable. I was referencing one's need to leave childhood behind and to be a responsible adult.
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