Recall your 10-year-old self’s daydreams about your 21st birthday. Maybe you were okay you would be living it up at your dream school, learning by day and partying by late night. Perhaps you fantasized yourself a world traveler, backpacking across the world and spending your days sipping wine with the world’s most fascinating folks.
If your fantasies didn’t entirely turn out as planned, it’s OK! You should still be cracking open that wine-in-a-box and enjoying your twenties. So being in your twenties is a time for adventure and whimsical. Many of us will settle down one day, create amazing little families and become permanent components in our neighborhoods of choice. But that day is not today.
1. Travel somewhere you don’t know the language.
Going someplace you can’t easily communicate with other people is frightening. But not only would it educate you and make you savvy to another culture, but it would also impel you to really learn the language — something we’re barely forced to do.
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2. Date someone who isn’t your “type.”
You will learn and evolve from being around people who are not like you. Maybe the relationship won’t work out at the last or maybe you’ll get your future spouse. At any rate, you’ll one or another have a great time or a terrible time, but you will learn from the experience.
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3. Start your savings
Retirement might be a glitch on the map but it will be here before you know it. Assist yourself and start saving now. Particularly if your company offers to match.
4. Take a risk: Go bungee jumping or skydiving or swim with sharks.
I’m talking to you non-adrenaline addictions and typical stay-at-homers. Get out-of-doors, put yourself in the hands of trained professionals, and experience that amazing feeling of being this close to staring death in the face.
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5. Start investing.
This is a chance in itself. Learn ample to invest some money or have someone else do it for you. No risk, no award.
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6. Form your political opinion.
We live in a politically violent time. It’s up to us to educate ourselves and lawyers for what we believe in.
Many people shy away from political talks but by having them, you’ll come out with fresh, more well-rounded knowledge and, probably, will get to know your own opinions better.
7. Stop holding grudges.
Past resentment is overrated. You don’t need negativity in your life and you certainly don’t need it over something that happened years before.
8. Start a collection.
Do something that is totally fun, quirky and completely defines you. Be passionate about it but don’t be a churl!
9. Take a cross-country road trip.
Particularly if you are in India, you’ll get to experience many different implications of the country and you can support local mom-and-pop ventures.
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10. Pay off your credit card debt.
No one wants this to start with, but you have a chance to before your thirties with a clean financial slate if you play your cards right.
Debt can not only be economically devastating for building the future you dream of, but it can also be tough on your morale.
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11. Go see live music you love.
There’s something so exceptional about seeing your favorite stars live. They aren’t going to be on tour endlessly, so getting the tickets and make the drive. You won’t disappoint seeing them live.
12. Set an annual reading goal.
I could wimp you with the list of benefits of reading, but I. Go make yourself an account on some reading website and set yourself a reading goal to achieve it each year.
13. Overcome a fear.
Sometimes your fears pull you back but don’t let them. Take steps to beat your fear of public speaking or heights. Once you know you what you are skillful of, anything is possible.
14. Get a tattoo.
Permanence is terrifying, so make sure it’s something that really speaks for you who you are at this point in your life, particularly if you’re prone to regret. Make up your mind, do your analysis and go for it.
15. Join a club.
And I don’t mean the tabulations of resume-fluffing ones you joined in high school and college. I mean ones that you are really interested in and desirous about. For example, try and join a running club or a poetry club.
16. Treat yourself to something really expensive.
…and settle for it in cash. Whether it’s a trip of a lifetime, a new mobile, a handbag or a weekend away at an ostentatious resort and spa, you totally deserve it for working tough.
17. Be the first person to apologize.
It’s difficult to admit when you are wrong. But it’s certainly for the greater good.
Saying “I’m sorry” is something we learn as children but don’t often apply as adults.
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18. Run a marathon.
Pushing yourself physically is not only good for your fitness but good for your mental state. And plus, you’ll feel really great with your medal.
We’re skilled enough more than we think we are — and this is your chance to show it to yourself!
19. Forgive yourself for mistakes.
Perceiving you made a huge mistake by passing over an amazing job offer might look like the end of the world, but it’s not.
Forgive yourself and make a move. This goes along with letting go of grudges–don’t hold them against you.
20. Learn how to cook.
I’m not saying you should aspire to be Sanjeev Kapoor; just learn the basics of how to make a few fancy dishes on one of those special moments.
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