How to be a Failure in Your Twenties
Unsolicited advice about what failure looks like during a highly uncertain decade
“The path to whatever your notion of success is will likely not be linear. Just because you’re older doesn’t necessarily mean you’re wiser. Your 20s will be full of failures — let them happen and learn as you go.” — Holden Desalles
When I was graduating high school, I thought I would have everything in my life figured out by the ripe age of 25. This meant my finances, my relationship, and my career would be causing me zero stress. I held it as an assurance that, by this time, the uncertainties in my life would be gone.
Reading that expectation now, I cannot really put into words how utterly wrong I was. It’s honestly hysterical what eighteen-year-old me expected of older Thom. I by no means have it all figured out, and the amount of failure I have been exposed too in my twenties seems unprecedented.
You don’t have to wind the clock back far to find this failure.
Last year I had awful experience in where my internship didn’t pan out, and I had to move home from Toronto, back in with my Dad. From there, I found a genuinely terrible, cold-calling job while in the same month, my long term relationship had just ended. On top of all of this, I had also…
