Kids in Grown-Up Shoes

I've realized that, at 21, this is the age where I would love to freeze time. You're caught in the whirlwinds of fun and misbehavior. The fake ID is out the window and you're ordering rum and redbulls, the occasional amaretto sour, some cranberry concoction or my new original favorite the Malibu Barbie | Cocunut Malibu, Bacardi, pineapple juice and sprite |. Try that and get back to me. Vacations. Youth. Heading into your prime. It all seems care-free. However, with my generation it also seems to be the time where responsibility and chaos seems to knock at the door and say "Hey remember me? yeah, grow up."

As I look at a variation of people around me climbing into adulthood - babies, marriage, the race for employment, apartment hunting... - it hits me that people are stepping into their lives. | Slang translation: It's getting real out here! | Everyone else's agenda can often seem like a cloud of pressure looming over your own schedule of life events. I've spoken to a few friends and they're stressed from the dizziness of trying to build their lives, whether it's family or their peers consciously or subconsciously pressuring them to get the ball rolling.

It's easy to cave in to the feeling of being left behind. But take it from me, an ex full-time futuristic thinker now turned part-time future part-time present thinker, we are YOUNG! Enjoy it! For some reason, our generation has a warped psyche that believes by your mid twenties, you're old. Be happy for those around you and build happiness for yourself. Salute to all moving onto the next stages in their lives and making beautiful strides. Everyone has their own private goals of where they'd like to be, and nothing always goes as planned. Surprises, obstacles and good opportunities are sprinkled all through your life to shape you as an individual. I've come to truly understand this idea of tomorrow never being promised. It's all about balance of enjoying today and being prepared for tomorrow along with everyone's personal goals and measures of bliss. Revel in your accomplishments and steadily reach for what you want out of this life, a day at a time. In basic words, think of the kid in the grown-up shoes; either you can fit those suckers or wait till your feet grows.

We are all here temporarily, so make sure you enjoy enough of life to last you eternally.