10 Things I Did for the First Time After Turning 25
Who says all the fun in life ends when you hit 25?
If you Google “Life ends at 25,” you will come up with 6,53,00,00,000 results — all telling you about how you are too old to do a lot of fun things once you cross the magical barrier of 25.
When I was a child, life seemed to be full of possibilities. Infinite chances that seemed to slowly dwindle as I grew older.
Once I was in my teens and done with school, each birthday felt like another reminder of how I was supposed to achieve so much, but all I was doing was wasting my life.
The early twenties were harder — like an invisible clock was ticking down years until the dreaded age of 25, by which one is supposed to have found a stable job and life partner, and nothing good ever happens after that.
Life felt like a roller coaster ride headed for an inevitable crash akin to hitting a brick wall.
And then….I turned 25 in 2017.
It didn’t feel anything different. There was no crash. My life certainly didn’t feel like it had exhausted all possibilities.
I hadn’t found a life partner. I hadn’t found a job I was sure I would do for the rest of my life. I didn’t have a string of achievements to flaunt. I was…
