I am officially in that awkward stage of life where someone is around the same age as me, but our lives look soo much different. I’m sure many people can relate to this. Some people are getting married in their twenties. Some people have children and others can hardly even keep a plant alive.

Growing up, most kids your age had the same so called “problems”. Looking back, most of us would love for our only problems to be that we missed the latest episode of Dragon Tale’s or that we spilt our cheerios on the floor. We are officially in a time of our lives where we begin to make our life our own. We’re no longer being told what to do, rather we get to make our own decisions. We have to pay for our own clothes, rent, and food. We have to schedule our own doctor’s appointments. We have to truly become independent if we want to be successful in this world.

When we were young, there was a common timeline to follow. As we get older, that magical timeline begins to slowly fade away until it completely disappears. There’s no magic number anymore which can be hard. You want to be able to compare yourself to the other people your age to see where you should be at, but the truth is, you’re doing your own thing.

You don’t have to do something simply because everyone else your age is. Some people will be get married in their twenties, others in their forties, and some not at all. Some people spend more than 4 years getting that degree and others have already been in the workforce for years. Some people will be having children and others will still be working on keeping that plant alive. It truly doesn’t matter what “some people” are doing because you have a unique path. Our paths are all different. Comparing your timeline to someone else’s isn’t going to make yours go by any faster or slower; it’s not going to make yours any better or worse. Be content with whatever stage of life you’re in and whatever that stage looks like because you’re suppose to be there.

-Em 🙂