What Should You Expect at The Age of 23?

Yesterday I was with my friends that I haven't met for quite a long time, why? They were away from my home. I met them in college and the places and life have been different and not like mine. But that is not what happened. In the afternoon, we visited our friend's home that was near to my place, we are all 23 years old, yet with different life expectations and stories.

Looking back on those days when we are still living in one dormitory, one thing that we used to enjoy is planning about life, “what will do next after graduation?” of course always says find a job, stable or high-paying, having our own families and live the life comfortably, but this time we do ask if the life we looked upon over now, what happened? Are we meet the reality?

No, after graduation. One thing that comes inside of us is that “Passed the board" exam and we did that. We passed the three days exam, then we should look for a job, and I did that. But things happened familiar to each other, we were unemployed at the moment.

I do the joke, that we were the “useless batch” of graduates of 2019. That was too far but seems like we agreed on that words. Then comes their broken expectations and all the things that we never thought went wild at the age of 23.

So what should you expect at that age?

At that age one thing that you will find is that it feels like you were left behind. You will find yourself wondering why I am stuck in that places and look at the people under the same age as mine. They were all the best look as they were.

We also discussed that. We looked at the life of other people. Those married men under the same age as us, but why we don’t have any planned feelings like them? Maybe we were too much enjoying the age of twenties.

Look at the other people who turn their course to another side, some of my batch who also graduated as mine, forget their bachelors have some works that want really related to the experience and knowledge they have. At the age of 23-25, you will find yourself wondering about all the things you saw from other people especially those people of the same ages as yours.

We are all registered under the PRC professional list, why we don’t have any jobs at the moment? Is that a bad thing?

Not, we both answered the honest quotations, “we don’t feel the pressure” if I do maybe I did find a job or accept the offer even if it wasn't related to my studies, If I have the pressure maybe I also shift in some actions if I have some pressure maybe I will bite all the possible opportunities, but no. we are still enjoying the life of 23.

At some point at my 20—25, we did call it a playful age. We enjoyed the time of being bachelors. Did we play the life that wasn’t in the go, pressured by others? No.

Honestly, this is not what I expected in my younger years, where at the age of 23, I will be stagnant. Not really, for there was always a reason behind it.

I discovered a hidden talent of mine, writing, and content creating, if I am not exposed to this one maybe I am not into blogging, for I always said that this wasn’t related to my studies and even the like and dislike. At the age of 23, I also discovered investment, which is not typical in all my friends.

There were still people at the age of 23, who doesn’t know what is insurance. There were people my age doesn’t know the trading, but there were also people who feels like I do. I laughed at some point one friend of mine opened up about what they were expecting from me.

At the age of 23, I am still learning. That’s the biggest reason why I am not yet successful. I am still laboring things, it's not that you graduated college and require a diploma you already knew everything and becomes a professional. that’s not what happened.

If some people say what happened to the age of unemployment of 21-25 I have a lot of things to say. I am still behind others? I planned three business plans (Mushroom Farm, Rice Mushroom coffee, and rabbit venture) I discovered and invest in crypto, and I do invest in my life (cooperatives).

Does at my age I am left behind? Surely no, I just don’t feel the pressure. It doesn’t mean that I am successful at the age of 20-30 doesn’t mean we were useless.

Just that progress is different for every one of us, so if you feel stagnant you had no success at the moment. No, it's not that thing, it's just we still have no pressure.