Make the most of my 20's

I’ve been musing this goal for a while and wondering what it means to me. First I asked myself how would I like to have spent my 20s? but this didn’t yield many thoughts. Then I rephrased : what did I want to have achieved by my 30th birthday? This felt a little more thought-provoking. I mean, put that way it sounds really important because the decade in which you are 20 should surely be stuffed full of productivity and acheivements. But, what, I asked myself specifically, would I like to achieve by then?

A few thoughts came to me:

A good degree
A job
Happiness and healthiness (I like the comment from someone here about wanting to look back at photos of themselves at 20 and think how beautiful and happy they looked.)

But these achievements are a bit wishy washy. I’m wondering whether it’s best to focus on my specific goals for this time next year to get some direction for future achievements…maybe when I’m 25 I’ll have some clearer ideas!!

I’m not 20 yet but I want to make the most of my 20’s. :)

Joined a running club today went with a couple of others really glad i did. Got soclaising a wee bit, never felt uncomfortable about it too which is also a bonus and getting fitter too, now i really wanna go out for a 20min run just to keep the buzz going. Feeling much happier too especally cause i got out the house.

still on a massive high for getting such a great time in the 5k today, done WAY better than i expected now i just want more of the same. I feel really motivated now to keep running so i will for sure join the running club with my friend and hopefully thats gonna help me to get fit but also socialise more. I need the confindence but today has been a really great day. Desperatly now wanna get back into sports since thats my passion. In the back of my head i always knew that but because i put on weight and was quite unfit for a while i was reluctant to start up again casue i wouldnt be half as good as i used to be but now after today i am really encurraged to just go for it.
Sports are my thing and even tho im still have love handles and dont have toned abs, yet, i feel confident enough to tell everyone this is what i love and what i want to do!

I’m making about no progress on this goal and I am quite bothered by this fact.

It hasnt been two months since I turned 26 and Im kinda in panic mode, like, ‘omg, I’ll never be able to make the most of my 20s, I’ll never feel like I truly lived them out, never be at peace and content because of it’ blah blah blah. Its just that so much of what I want to do requires money and independence, and at the moment, I have neither. And I dont see myself aquiring either anytime soon, and that I believe is the crux of my current frustration with my current bummed-out feelings about this goal.

The travel bit bothers me by far the most of all. I want to run free, to wander, to roam, to set off for 12 glorious months on a fantastic voyage of fun, adventure, relaxation, awe, inspiration, and discovery…

...while Im still young enough, healthy enough, and free enough to do so happily. I want to experience this voyage in my 20s! I feel like I cannot begin to build my own life – own place, secure job, retirement account, etc – until this RTW has been completed in full.

I feel I should have done so much of my list already, long before I reached the halfway point even, and I wonder, will I feel like I really made the most of my 20s if I only do so when I’m, say, 28 and 29? What about those pesky years where I wasnt getting out, wasnt having big fun, wasnt travelling, wasnt establishing myself financially or job-wise? How do I move beyond those? How do I move beyond the past 3.5 years, which, although providing some definite insight into myself, have been mainly a waste?

Why am I buying into our societal/cultural beliefs that certain things can only happen, and certain things should happen, and certain things must happen, in the 20-something decade?

So far I’ve studied abroad in two different countries, one of which I’m still living in. I met my amazing love more than two years ago, with whom I share the sweetest sunniest flat in London. I gained the confidence I never had in my teenage years and lost my exaggerated melancholy as a result. I am 24 and have been to more parties than I can remember, and have taken all kinds of recreational drugs. I spend my summers in Italy, and go to Belgium to visit my wonderful friends whenever I can.I don’t regret anything so far, and I still believe the best is yet to come. Money’s tight, but I’ve never been happier. So I’m not doing too bad and I’ve still got 6 years to finish this goal. I am a timewaster and you could call me Miss Procrastination, but in the long run, it’s all working out fine. I’m so excited for whatever is coming my way.

i finally signed up for a 5k race. Running or just sports in general is something that i was really into when i was younger but then during my teens i just gave up and quit everything, much to my regret now. Anyway sport has been something i really want to get back into casue i was really happy before while i was participating so i think this will be a step in the right direction.

Hopefully thie rest of my life will follow.

i keep thiking maybe i have to get a new piercing and a tatto??? or i will regret it later?

im 23 and on july i will be 24. every time more near to the big quarter. i cant believe it!! i remember when i was 15 and i thought about it…for now i think im making the most of my 20s, i got a bachelor degree and im near to enroll to a master degree, i have friends, i go out a lot, im living my life baby! im young! but i want to do more before the 30s:

-have a master degree
-have an apartment
-have a new car
-have a good job that i like with a good salary
-have more girlfriends
-travel
-go skydiving
-enjoy more the beach in general
-meet a special person or at least know who deserve me more
-improve my style
-have my own pet
-be more confident and independent

some of this are in my things, maybe i put more later… as i go getting old

So, Ive been 26 for about two and a half hours. I’m still reluctant to change my age in my profile…it feels weird, yet at the same time OK, to be this age.

I now have 4 years left to complete this goal, and that might be enough time. Not sure at this point, but 4 years is better then 3, which is better then 2, which is better than 1, which is better than already being out of my 20s and thus unable to complete this goal. lol. Four years is actually a rather long time but I’ll look at this in year-long increments. Now in list form, some of the experiences/things I want to have/do before I reach 30 (in no order):

- go dancing at nightclubs more
- spend an evening every now and again out on the town
- wear some clothing pieces only young people can get away with
- skinny-dip
- skydive
- have a random makeout with a mr. handsome and romantic
- take more ‘risks’ with my appearance (started this)
- move out of my parent’s house into my own place
- live in an urban flat or house (?)
- travel around Greece during summer with my best mate
- travel abroad extensivelly on my RTW journey (this is far fetched)
- visit 30 countries
- have a fun drunken night with friends, complete with hangover
- start a retirement fund and make regular contributions to it
- have an emergency fund of 6 months living expenses in the bank
- be at, or at least significantly on the way to, financial independence

more to come!