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The Year I was 20

by twntysmth

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January 01, 2023

It's 2023 Now

Entered the new year totally wasted before an 8am shift. I felt horrible but regret nothing. I have managed to buy a couch and am getting a desk that’ll fit tomorrow for my apartment. I think I’m...


It’s Christmas again holy shit! Little bit tipsy right now but this should be coherent enough. Last week I put down a security deposit on my first apartment! No idea how I’m gonna afford everythi...


Most of us born in the late 90’s and very early 2000s get this. To other users, here’s what I mean. I don’t feel like Gen Z. I didn’t grow up with unlimited internet access. It was totally a hug...


I turned 20 almost 3 months ago. My life has flipped around several times since. It seems as though I’ve been in a state of constant action, constant thinking, processing, and evolution for the l...


Book Description

Will this be one of the best or the worst? 3 months in and it has already been too eventful. This strange slippery slope into adulthood. So much uncertainty, mixed with certainty. I stand here, the product of the strange 2000s. Of the adolescent mental health system. Of an ever changing and digitalized world. Of COVID-19. Of a generation marked by resilience and illusion and mental illness and nicotine and lostness and determination and anxiety and depression and fear of the uncertain future charging towards us. Does everyone else feel the same secretly? I stand here, put together, carefully curated. But at the same a loose cannon-ball, just wanting to scream at the top of her lungs. The following is the year I was twenty.