Fun & Famous
WHAT YOU MUST (AND STILL MAY) DO IN YOUR 20’S
by Adeline Mans
Not because you have to, but because you can (ha, that’s already in your head). But here they are, the musts to check off in your twenties. I'm racing towards thirty, so I’m happily laying out what was awesome and what I (silly me) should have done in my twenties life.
Buy something ridiculously expensive
But really, breathlessness so expensive. Spending money before it’s in your account is something you should definitely do at least once. The panic that hits you when your last cracker is gone, it’s a life lesson you shouldn’t miss. But if you’re just medium in your twenties and earning something substantial, you just rush that over the bar. Whoosh, gone.
Work it
Seven days a week, around the clock. Seriously, aim high and all that jazz. Work. Hard. You can dance on tables four nights and work until you’re bleary-eyed. I’m not that flighty, but everything you invest now you’ll get back in double. And how nice is it to have a curriculum before your dirty thirty that your future boss gets weak knees from?
Look too deep into the corporate drink glass
Hey, not such a good idea. But if you’re fresh in the grown-up world, then for one time you can be a bit slurring against the CEO. I don’t mean that he or she should hold your hair back at the end of the festivities to get it all out, but just giggly stage. I once rowed in a party-like manner where the big boss was present. And I once went ‘oooh’ and ‘aaah’ the day after out of shame, but I was allowed to stay.
Go out alone
I wish I had been away alone for months, but in real life the score is meager. But do this, talk to people you would never meet, see the world alone and without anyone else chattering in your ear. And cry in public because that brat in the subway had his hand in your bag and you’re hot and tired. After that, everything is even more beautiful than it already was.
For a night
Under the motto: you can only have an opinion if you’ve tried it. That one night stand? Do it. Yes, it’s a fumble and a hassle of ’have I got you there‘. No, you don’t drown in his eyes. And if he accidentally stays over, you have no f-ing clue what to say the next day. But, it’s so exciting and weird and freaky. So don’t give your phone number in the morning, okay? Because then there’s a chance it becomes a second night stand and then you have to start all over again. Or, I’m just saying, with your tipsy head blurt out that you have nothing to do the next day. If you hook a long sleeper, it’ll be afternoon before he leaves. You don’t want that.
Dirty out the door
Well, a bit polished and fresh teeth, but when you’re running and down that sip of coffee and then spill it. But you really wanted to wear this blouse, you even ironed it with military precision and it looks so good with those trousers. Just pretend you don’t see it and walk out the door. The first mad man or woman who says anything about it, you look at shocked, you cover your mouth with your hand and shout very loudly: ‘Oh, no“. And then stubbornly insist that it happened during the day and not at home. Where you still had time to put something else on.
