Came across an article online, good reminders. I took off some points before reposting:

21 Ways You Should Take Advantage Of Your 20s

(http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/21-ways-you-should-take-advantage-of-your-20s/)

 

1. Don’t feel the need to respond to every text message, phone call, and email the second it reaches you. Once upon a time,

it took longer than a minute to reach someone. No one will die if you don’t immediately respond to every message you receive.

2. Ask for what’s owed to you. Half the time, you’re not getting your needs met because you’re not 

making them known. Your employers, romantic interests, and friends are not going to read your mind and 

give you what you need unless you speak up.

4. If you’re unhappy and someone offers you a way out, take it. You don’t owe your first job years of 

loyalty and your first-born; you don’t have to stay in your city just because you’re on a first-name 

basis with the bodega guy. Do what feels right; the initial fear will give way to excitement.

  

5. Take advantage of all the energy you have in your 20s. In your 30s and 40s, your body starts getting upset with you,

when some 20-something babe is all, “Wanna race?” That’s not a concern when you’re in your 20s — don’t ever take it for granted.

6. Let your more successful friends pick up the check this time. Before you’re 30, it’s still okay to be work as a barista

and not have your career path figured out. Save your cash and take up your lawyer-friend’s offer for dinner.

Use the money you saved to buy more ramen.

8. Learn how to cook. Here’s an idea — instead of spending all your money on ridiculously marked-up restaurant food,

save your money by buying non-processed WHOLE FOODS and LEARNING HOW TO MAKE A MEAL OF REAL FOOD.

You’ll thank yourself for learning how to cook when your metabolism catches up to you.

9. Keep making friends. Everyone complains that it’s hard to make friends after college, but we still manage to find

new people to flirt with and date, right? It’s not that hard. You know yourself better than you ever have before,

and your friends can finally reflect that. Don’t cling to old friends because it’s too frightening or ‘risky’ to make new ones.

 

11. Stay up late. If you’re in your 20s, you do. You have all the time. Do it now and take advantage of how not tired you are.

You think you’re crabby now when you stay up too late? You’ll never believe how terrible you feel when you do it in your 30s.

12. Savor those 20s hangovers. They are a gift from God so that you’ll always remember what your tolerance level is.

Your hangover recovery time is like flippin’ Wolverine in your 20s. You wake up, feel like death, pull on some shades,

gulp down coffee or maybe a bloody Mary and whine about your headache over brunch. Oh, boo hoo. 

When you’re older, every hangover is Apocalypse Freaking Now. You’re not making it to brunch.

13. Indulge in diner/ fast food at 4 a.m. This is considered depressing behavior once you become a real adult.

14. STOP PROCRASTINATING YOUR TRIP ABROAD. YOUR CHANCES OF TAKING A LONG VACATION ABROAD DIMINISH

AS YOU BECOME MORE SET IN YOUR WAYS AND AS YOU GAIN MORE RESPONSIBILITY.

15. Do ‘unacceptable’ things to your hair. Dye it. Dread it. Shave only the left side of your head and give a crap

if it grows back in a flattering manner (hint: it won’t). There’s no time but now.

17. Sit down, unplug, and read non-fiction. Do this daily. None of your peers are doing it. They’re playing video games

and refreshing Facebook and Gmail chatting about nothing in particular. After a month you’ll be smarter than all of them.

19. Take road trips. Sitting in a car for days on end isn’t something your body was designed to do forever.

21. Go to/host theme parties. Once people age out of their 20s, no one’s trying to wear pajamas or Saran Wrap out of the house. 

The only theme parties that exist after your 20s are ‘Wedding,’ ‘Baby Shower,’ and ‘Funeral.’

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