“The best years of your life”

How many times have you been told “these are the best years of your life”?  20 years old, I just turned 20 years old.  Which means I am on the second decade of my life.  It’s this weird in between age where you are technically an adult, but you still have to listen to authority, you are still told what to do.  20:  you can’t legally drink, but you can be in charge of your taxes, pay for rent, work a dead end job, have serious responsibilities.  We have so much freedom but at the same time not at all.  We don’t have enough money to make serious investments or go out on a limb and buy that television or computer we’ve always wanted.  We do, however, have enough money to get by.  We are old enough to date around, but we are much too young to get married.  It’s this amazing time in our lives where we have this new sense of freedom, but then again we have a lot of limits.  We feel invincible but we have to also take life very seriously.  Life is just weird.  But I suppose this is a good time in our lives to find ourselves, to practice the life we want to live down the road.  To learn what we want from friends, family, people in general.  This is such a fun time, but a time to learn.  To make mistakes, but learn from all of them. A time to figure our shit out but to also relax and enjoy freedom.