Things I should've known at 20

http://inoveryourhead.net/20-things-i-should-have-known-at-20/

So true.  My pension grew 1% in 2011.  I should have travelled when I was 20.  I'm making up for it now, but I'm far more restricted in my current climate.  25 days holiday + 10 bank holidays per year (and that's generous), rent, pension, savings account, bills and my 5 year plan.  

I specifically remember sitting in traffic on the quays on the way to the Prodigy gig when I was 20.   My boyfried at the time was in the fornt seat and he and the other 2 in the car were joking about the fucking morans they were going out with when they were 20.  I remember being upset that they would say that, but now I am their age and I was going out with a fucking moran when I was 20!  As the article said, make friends with older people. You eventually learn all that they know.  So true.

I remember being 20 and caring so much about what all the cool kids thought of me.  I wanted so badly to fit in with the musicians and the hipsters.  I went to every festival, partied all night, took that fucking Meow shit like it was water because that's what the cool kids were doing.  Last Saturday I chilled with my friends, had a BBQ and a cup of tea on the couch.  It was the best day I've had all year.  What  ever happened to those cool kids?  They're still partying all night, doing every drug under the sun, on the dole and going nowhere in life. They're in their late 20s and barely have a Leaving Cert to fall back upon. Why did I care so much about them?  Because they were cool and I was 20!  Crazy.  I wonder what happens when I hit 28...

Baby swans in Booterstown Park.