By Susan Simolo
The transition from being a teenager to the
phase of adulthood (20s) is weird start to stress about all life’s big
decisions. Thoughts about your career starts creeping in, one starts visualizing
on how they want their life to play out. The issue of finances and paying of bills
slowly start catching up with you sooner than you had expected. All these
cannot be figured out at once.
Put yourself first. This may sound as a
cliché but it is what it is. It all starts with you. Develop self-love, the
acceptance, the confidence, self-esteem. How you package yourself will automatically
translate to how others will treat you. You are your most precious asset.
Define your own rules, principles and take control of whatever revolves around
you. You definitely gain nothing by pleasing someone else to an expense being
at the receiving end. Release the fear of feeling like you are not good enough.
Being in your 20s and not taking risks
sounds alarming. This is the time that we all are trying to grow. Growth can
not take place while we are in our comfort zones. Comfort and change have
probable never co-existed in one sentence. That YouTube channel you got in mind,
the blogging, podcast, the business idea, learning a tech course. Juggling
around any of this may eventually help you land to your niche.
Clinging on one thing in this digital era
can just leave you drowning in hopelessness. One has to be diversified and open-minded.
Different opportunity can come knocking at your door but since one may feel
like it’s not their area of study, they will just let them slide. Be a person
who is willing to learn and have knowledge and skills in different areas. Expand
your wings and become flexible in any job market.
It’s just that time for networking. The groups
you have joined while in campus and also takes part in their activities are the
closest network in additional to friends and the course mates. Building a
relationship portfolio contributes to the success of your career in future.
Never burn bridges with these people because you never know will come in handy
and at what time.
Working hard sounds analogue but it still
pays off. Consistence and hard work are important in everything that one does. People
will only get to know what you are doing by how frequent you put it out there.
In the 20s someone else may be living the
life that you dream of but that is not the ticket to feel like you have failed.
You cannot compare your journey to others. Learn to run the race at your own
pace eventually you will get there. Believing is halfway achieving the goal. Let
things flow one at a time because what works for the other may not necessarily work
out for you.
Have a life outside the relationship that
you are romantically involved in. Since it’s a phase that people are still
growing and identifying themselves, they may just wake up one day and feel like
you are no longer good enough for them. You will be left nursing a broken heart
and feel like your life is in wreck. Thoughts of the promises made while you
were still naïve and when the relationship was at its rosy phase will just
leave your eyes watery with a never-ending emotional battle. The romantic
movies we and the fairy novels make people have unrealistic expectations which
cannot be fulfilled by a young man you just met in the university corridors. Arguments, blame games, disagreements become
the order of the day and when you can no longer put up with each other you send
yourself packing. Build yourself and your career in this golden phase. Always chase
the glow and not men.
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