Daily Times: While sitting around lamenting our millennial lives, a friend of mine shared this morsel of wisdom she’d gotten from an older acquaintance. It was something like, when you’re young you have time and energy, but no money. When you’re middle-aged, you have energy and money, but no time. And when you’re old, you have time and money, but no energy, Yagana Singh writes for Huffington Post.
Such is the quagmire of youth. While we’re getting bombarded with messages telling us to YOLO, to “dance like nobody’s watching” and love like we’ve never been hurt before – we’re busy dealing with unemployment, wondering how to pay for our weddings and how to lower our astronomical student loan payments.
And the thing about having more energy – well, I can’t vouch for that. Consensus among my 20-something friends is we’re tired. All.the.time. We’re juggling young, new relationships, 60-hour workweeks in many cases and the pressure to maintain the illusion of having “a life”.
Truth be told, many of us are looking forward to aging and getting to a point where we’ve passed most of life’s major hurdles – not spending our entire paychecks on the newest anti-aging serum to help us cling to our exponentially fading youth. Here’s what we’re looking forward to in older age:
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