B.B.Baghor
- Posts : 1851
Join date : 2014-01-31
Age : 73
Location : Druid county UK
B.B.Baghor Thu Mar 10, 2016 8:16 am
Young people, how I survived my 20'sThis guy, showing handsome charm in this picture, has quite a story to tell about his 20's.
"To be fair, my 20s were in some ways amazing. But they were only amazing because I was so goddamn blissfully unaware of everything important. Deep, intimate, loving, long-term relationships? No. All the sex. Studying for the pleasure of learning and bettering humanity? No: a masters in psychology to try (unsuccessfully) to fix what was wrong with me. A job I loved that made me and the world a richer place? Shut up. The City.
Financial publishing. Money. Money. Lies. Money. More lies.
My job was deeply unfulfilling, extremely stressful and vehemently anti-life. The only thing I loved doing, playing the piano, I had cast aside aged
18 and refused to engage with beyond listening to music and going to concerts. So I wasn’t playing; I wasn’t doing anything remotely creative.
I knew that the real answers to life would be found in big pay cheques, bigger distractions, five-star hotels and avoiding any kind of self-awareness
like the plague. And, honestly, it almost bloody killed me. Worst of all, by my late 20s I was doing this as a father – taking responsibility for another
life when my own looked as though it belonged on a reality TV show. On Channel 5. It’s glaringly obvious to me now that the only good thing to
come out my 20s was actually a great thing. To this day the single greatest miracle in my life: my son.
I’m now 40. I have a career as a musician, which is what I’ve dreamed of from the age of seven. I understand more about who I am, what is right
and how best to be me. I’m even approaching a fuller understanding of what love is".
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/10/how-i-survived-my-20s-james-rhodes