Why does it seem like you have to experience everything...

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In your 20s ?

I do get irritated by this idea that if you haven't done much things like partying a lot, drinking, going to lots of live music events and so on in your 20s and you do it at other times of life, it's seen as strange or odd as though you should have done these things a long time ago.

I feel like it makes people think they made the "wrong decisions" in life and should have done it earlier so they don't regret it later on. I do at times finding myself thinking was my life boring because I wasn't actively going out to clubs or parties? Or had less friends to hang out with? I feel like sometimes I'm the only one and that everyone else did these things without regret and not looking back with regret.

I like being social but I don't like getting drunk and most of the music played in those clubs is nearly always techno, electronic and so on and I'm not into that music much really although I like the prodigy music.

I don't think it's that you have to in that age bracket, rather it's that most people do a bunch of exploring of experiences at that age, especially of things they couldn't explore when they were younger.

This idea that one is building an interesting story of yourself, that idea that "you" had "lived", and using those experiences to reminisce in a later age.

Sometimes I see it as some sort of funny way to "build a lore" of "yourself".
But a good portion of that are something that's conditioned. Conditioned in an attempt to make "meaning". And in which conditioned to compare those stories, too.

It's a good distraction against whatever mental existential thought of what living even meant, unless you're a hyper rational being or an animal only runs on instincts to conclude that your only true meaning and purpose is to survive and reproduce.



Anyways, 20s is supposedly the "figure it out" stage. "Try everything stage" therefore. Supposedly, afterwards, pick on what to settle in.
Who says that it's the only time you can do that?

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