I Will Turn 42 This Year, and Here’s Some Disturbing Advice for People in Their 20s

I’ll get right to the point. I will share 20 bitter lessons that the sooner you learn in Life, the better off you will be. I do because I wish someone had shared them with me in my 20s — they would have saved me a lot of pain, disappointment, and suffering. Let’s start <ol> <li>It hurts people more to lose property than to lose a loved one. My family suffered more at the notary’s office than on my grandfather’s funeral day. — It’s Dantesque to see how your aunts-in-law ransack your grandfather’s house while your grandmother mourns the death of her husband. It is like watching pigeons pecking at the remains of the sandwich that fell to the ground and left the rats.</li> <li>The music in fashion is in style because it incites you to consumption: think of the summer song and the Christmas remixes; where do they always sound? In the stores, in the restaurants, in the bars, what for? So that YOU SPEND YOUR MONEY. — And Christmas carols are used to make you relate Christmas with BUYING presents.</li> <li>There’s a time in Life when you’re excited about what’s new. And you’ll be excited waiting for the latest Smartphone or Airpods, but then there will be another time when the opposite happens (It started happening to me in my 30s). To quote Norah Ephron, “I became a big advocate of Blogs and email. Instead, I feel like everything new has been brought into the world to make me feel bad.”</li> </ol> <a href="https://medium.com/the-writers-fight-club/i-will-turn-42-this-year-and-heres-some-disturbing-advice-for-people-in-their-20s-9da96f0d6e44">Read More</a>