Twenty...something. (Part 1)

Thank goodness I posted about "Fly" last week, because it reminded me to listen to it again. Still need to work on that "Songs to Cheer You Up" playlist.

There have been quite a few articles out about twenty-somethings lately. I've most recently read this one:

http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/21277.html

Then, there's the New York one (featuring a very famous Obie on the cover):
http://nymag.com/news/features/my-generation-2011-10/

And, the first one I read, I think, from the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/magazine/22Adulthood-t.html

A Google search of the "word" "twenty-something" revealed two more fascinating finds, one I'd forgotten about and one I'm now happy to know exists:

"Twentysomething", by Jamie Cullum

aanndddd.....guess what online community I just joined!
http://www.20sb.net/

I feel fascinated with this phrase tonight because it describes my current state right now in more ways than one. I'm 23, a month and a half away from 24, AND I'm trying to do...something. To be something.

What is that something? Everyone talks a lot about how hard it is to get a job these days, and I wouldn't disagree with that with the national unemployment rate at 9%. (Can we pause there for a second? This number means that it is quite possible that, when you consider the groups of people that you know in groups of 100, 9 of them don't have a job right now. Of course, there are factors that won't make that true for everybody, but I need to go to bed soon-ish so maybe I'll blog about those another time.)

But I will fully acknowledge that part of the reason I haven't gotten more fully employed in the past few months is because I'm not sure what my something is. As Cullum sings about, I've gone to college and gotten my head stuffed full of knowledge and life experiences. And then LVC. So now...what? Where? Why? When? HOW?

Plus love and family.

But sometimes you go to bed and wake up and everything feels clearer.

So, on that note, here's a good song by John Mayer (who now looks kind of like Johnny Depp), and this will be continued, because it can be more specific than it is now.