Blog Everyday in May: I am 22

I consciously made the decision to not blog yesterday because I needed to stare at my books and think about studying.  Only after I do that, can I actually study.  So any who, I'm back today.

The questions for today is, "If you couldn't answer with your job, how would you answer the question, 'what do you do?'"

The fact is that at the moment I am an unemployed student.  I have had odd minimum wage jobs and I will be looking for another one once finals are over but like most twenty two year olds, I do not have a career.  As of right now basically what I do is figure out what I want to do!  That's kind of the cool and scary part of being in college.  You have your whole life ahead of you so I still get to figure out what it is I want to do for the rest of my life.  I really don't know exactly what that is going to be, I may not even necessarily use my degree in art history, as much as I love it.

Being my age I often get people hounding me about what I am going to do with the rest of my life, like I should already know and have a plan.  I think they are just jealous that I am young and can still chose whatever path I want in life.  Honestly, you can do that at any age, it is just that as we get older and more comfortable it gets harder and it gets scarier.

As for right now, I go to school and learn about what interests me, I blog and make things in my spare time, and I stress about the future.  I spend money I don't have, I have fun with friends and roommates, I don't do laundry as much as I should. I eat grilled cheese for dinner almost every night, sometimes I drink more than I should, and I sometimes I watch too much TV.  I am twenty-two, that is what I do right now and you know, that is fine for now.

19 Things you Should Stop Doing in Your 20s

It is currently 8 o'clock and I completely forgot to write my post for today's blog everyday in May.  Then after thinking about it I realized that finding one quote that I loved would be far to difficult so I decided I would share this with you instead...

I recently came across this article on Facebook after a friend had posted it.  The article is a list of 19 things you should stop doing in your twenties.  As someone currently in my twenties (I am 22) I found this incredibly enlightening.  They all seem like fairly straight forward suggestions on how to be an adult and live life more happily but so many people do not take these sort of things to heart, I included.

The first point struck me as pretty interesting.  It is "Stop placing all the blame on other people for how they interact with you."  I don't know about you, but this sounds pretty freaking hard to me.  When someone does something that you don't particularly like it's obviously easiest to blame them entirely for the situation.  The fact is though, just like this article says, that "you are the only consistent variable in your equation."  I little tough to accept but it is true.

Another point that I have been trying very hard to do lately is, "Stop treating errands as burdens."  I do this all the time leading up to an errand.  I try and make someone go with me weather it is one of my roommates or my sister; I don't want to go out and go shopping or pick up groceries on my own.  The fact is though, when I do go and do it on my own it's kind of nice.  I can shop for as slow or as fast as I want, I can pick up Starbucks for myself, and I can blast my favorite song on the way there and back and sing in the car.  Living in San Diego this year I have been driving back to my parent's house in Riverside quite a bit for family events, holidays, etc. and I always dread driving for an hour and a half by myself but when I do it's kind of nice.  It's time to myself to think.  Use those errands as an opportunity to spend some quality time with yourself.

I encourage all you twenty somethings or almost twenty somethings to read these 19 things and take them to heart.  Which ones are your favorite?  Ones you need to work on?  Or anything you disagree with?

There, no I may not have stuck to the list but I did blog today, so that counts right?