BEING TWENTY - SOMETHING

An Article we can all relate to:

They call it the "Quarter-life Crisis." It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are many things about yourself that you didn't know and may not like. You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now.

You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends that you thought you were so close to aren't exactly the greatest people you have ever met, and the people you have lost touch with are some of the most important ones. What you don't recognize is that they are realizing that too, and they aren't really cold, catty, mean or insincere, but that they are as confused as you.

You look at your job... and it is not even close to what you thought you would be doing, or maybe you are looking for a job and realizing that you are going to have to start at the bottom and that scares you. Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing and find yourself judging more than usual because suddenly you realize that you have certain boundaries in your life and are constantly adding things to your list of what is
acceptable and what isn't. One minute, you are insecure and then the next, secure. You laugh and cry with the greatest force of your life. You feel alone and scared and confused.

Suddenly, change is the enemy and you try and cling on to the past with dear life, but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further away, and there is nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward.

You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do such damage to you. Or you lie in bed and wonder why you can't meet anyone decent enough that you want to get to know better. Or maybe you love someone but love someone else too and cannot figure out why you are doing this because you know that you aren't a bad person.

One night stands and random hook ups start to look cheap. Getting wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic. You go through the same emotions and questions over and over, and talk with your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem to make a decision. You worry about loans, money, the future and making a life for yourself... and while winning the race would be great, right now you'd just like to be a contender! We are in our best of times and our worst of times, trying as hard as we can to figure this whole thing out.

If you want the rainbow you got to put up with the rain.

getting shafted by the insurance company when it is not your fault sucks. when the accident happened, i wasnt going to claim injury although everyone told me to. all i wanted was for the party at fault to fix my car, plain and simple. weeks, then months went by and still my car is at the condition when it was hit. even persistant bugging of the insurance company didnt help. i was told that the 2nd party at fault had mysteriously disappeared. i should have seen it coming when the police report showed no proof of drivers license and a non existant insurance company. so here i am left with paying half of the damage that i didnt do on my own car. thats what i call getting shafted.

looking from another angle, i really did not pay anything...yet. although i didnt get 100% of the damage claim, i did get 50% since 2 cars caused damage and 1 was left to cover half. so, i have a $400 check in front of me and i log onto the website where you can find almost any junk in the world: Ebay. well guess what, i bought a used bumper for $10, paint job $300, my own labor $0.

I am left with $90 to spend on an insurance company vandaling spree.

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my friend set a goal to lose 8 pounds in 2 weeks. sometimes you need more than just a 0 carb diet and a 5 day gym regimen to break that plateau. i told him about a stack called ECA, which consists of ephedrine, caffeine, and aspirin. but recently, ephedra was banned due to some people having heart attacks and it was taken off the shelves. coincidently , i was skimming through the bodybuilding message boards and read about how ephedra is still being sold at local mom & pop health food stores. you just gotta ask. that gave me hope that i could still find it and i knew the exact place to go to. we drove down to a place in san dimas and looked at the shelves, nothing. all we see are ephedra-free bullshit diet supplements. i took a chance and went up to the guy at the front desk since he looked like he has been exposed to bodybuilding. i asked him if he had ephedra and he asked what for? so i told him that i wanted to do an ECA stack to get ready for a show etc... then he tells me to follow him and we go to the storage room in the back and he has a box of ephedra. he told me he didnt want ephedra to get into the hands of the wrong people, especially young adults who abuse them to just get an edge on looks. those are the people that get health issues on ephedra. so we walk out with a couple boxes of ephedra. sometimes you gotta act on your instinct.