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In every phase of our lives, there will always be things that we just can’t wait to be over. When you’re a child, you can’t wait for bedtime to go away. When you’re a pre-teen, you can’t wait for curfews to be extinct. When you’re in your late teens, you can’t wait to no longer live under your parents’ roof—and watch—so you can do whatever you want, whenever you want. But then, what happens? Bedtime goes away, and you just establish your own anyways because it turns out that being exhausted feels terrible. When you leave for college, you miss your parents terribly; you miss their cooking, you miss the way they had answers to everything, and you miss their hugs. When we’re in our twenties we think we are such adults and that whatever we feel and think then we will feel and think forever. Of course, that simply isn’t true. And the parts of our twenties that we can’t wait to be over—we wind up missing those in our thirties. Like these.
Bottle service at the club with strangers
In your twenties, you didn’t need to wait in line to get into a club. The bouncer saw you and your friends at the back, swooped you up, and escorted you inside to…a table full of guys you didn’t know. Those guys had bought table service, in exchange for the promise of having cute young women surrounding their table. At the time it creeped you out but now that you’re in your thirties and have to wait two hours to get into a club, you’ll take the creeps at the tables.
