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What it's like being a female living in the millennial era

To start, the perfect description of my life would be when you buy yourself a cute little lingerie set for your date, but while you are out, your period decides to come one day earlier and yet again, another good thing becomes ruined. I know, I know, I sound kind of pessimistic on life, but I am not, I swear. I like to view myself as a realist more than anything, with the good comes something shitty and vice versa. The older I get, the more realistic I start to become. This year, I will be turning 25 years old, and in my eyes, that’s 5 years away from 30, so I’m actually turning 30 this year. How is it that with each year you turn older, it feels like it comes with a whole new book of expectations. By 25, I thought I would of at least met the love of my life, been in the career of my dreams and climbing the corporate ladder. Instead, I’m dating a guy I know I won’t end up with, I’m working crazy hours whilst earning peanuts and I can barely make it to the end of the month with food in my fridge. I remember being in school and judging adults who stay in on the weekend, thinking that they are wasting life just to be machines profiting someone else’s pockets. Now, I couldn’t think of anything worse than getting home after work on a Friday night, quickly throwing on a new outfit and heading out for another repetitive night of drinking. Don’t get me wrong, I can throw it on the dance floor when it’s needed, give me some good old school rap music, a G&T and my girls, and who knows where that night is headed.

To start, the perfect description of my life would be when you buy yourself a cute little lingerie set for your date, but while you are out, your period decides to come one day earlier and yet again, another good thing becomes ruined.

Is there a rule book that people receive once they turn over the age of 23, where they feel the need to continuously ask if you are happy at your job, if you will marry the person you are dating and best of yet, if you see yourself having kids anytime soon. People you hardly know, feel that it is appropriate to pry into your private life, like I am just another episode of the Real Housewives. Fuck, you don’t see me asking Joan why she is still dating her boyfriend when she knows that he is cheating on her repetitively. Sometimes I swear some people would prefer if you stay blind and still ask these cliqued questions, just so that they can feel important answering them. Oh, but my panicle favorite is when people give suggestions on how to live, like excuse me, who the hell are you to suggest I get a new couch when I know perfectly well your parents are still funding your life at 26. These types of people, with their millions of questions and judgments, makes me feel lucky for the friends that I have. Nothing beats staying in on a Friday night, ordering in Uber Eats, playing card games and genuinely laughing a six pack into existence. Lately, life has been testing me more than usual, and at times like these, it is important to have genuine people in your life.

When I was younger, I use to feel like my life was too perfect, like something was still to be discovered, and boy when the secrets came out two years ago, my life and my view of life has shifted completely. I would necessarily say that this is a bad thing, in fact, I would say that it was what I needed to get a better perspective of the world.

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