This is ofc taking for granted that an illness or an accident will not happen, but aside from that, where does the narrative that your life is over after your 20's come from? There's both so much time and so little time, it seems.
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because the prototypical lifestyle involves getting married and pregnant before you're 25, after which significant radical life shifts are generally less intentional aside from the occasional career change
Probably because you're expected to have children by that point. And, while my life isn't over with my children, they factor into every decision I make and everything I do. I cannot, for example, just move to Ireland to be safe from the fascist coup or take a vacation to see New Zealand.
Yeah the way I'm talked to at work by older coworkers still assumes that I'm in a temporary transitional stage between my 20's and marriage/children, so this checks out. Curious what the narrative will be when I turn 40.
When I was 29-35 and I didn't have kids yet and for some of that time wasn't married, but I owned a house and had been "in the workforce" for a decade, my coworkers were all in their 50s and early 60s and talked to me and about me like I was this young kid just out of school.
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