#being young

[cigarretteluvr]

loving someone at nineteen is so different than loving someone at seventeen or twenty two. there is a searing passion of pent up energy from being stuck between knowing nothing and knowing everything and then on top of it all, knowing love.

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalise so suavely and mendaciously about the golden hours of youth -- that period in life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every set-back insuperable?"

Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (1933)

[strawbbcake]

i was so gorgeous when I was little

where'd that go

[thoughtportal]

it is hard being young

[2lovedddkaii]

[neverending-youth]

You know what feels strange? When we started to run our tumblrs we were these lost, misunderstood teenagers. Now we are young adults (possibly still lost and misunderstood). How time flies for our generation. Coming home from school feels like yesterday.

[kim-namjuns-baby]

20 years damn, im old in a young way and young in an old way

[wolfie-wolfgang]

mists of time. me. felt so cool. wrong too.

[a-ruby-is-a-sapphire]

Core Core Beauty Standards

I'm tired of everything I choose to do being criticised. I'm never enough for them then they wonder why I am a ball of stress.

I drink and don't drive and stay up until 4am once a fortnight dancing in a club with friends and cook simple foods cause I'm not into cooking and like my hair long and fringe short and want to fall in love and hold hands and watch movies in cinemas but I don't like movies at home and love catching up with my friends like I'm a reporter getting every detail out of a celebrity in a tell-all special interview and fuck I love being young so why does everyone tell me I need to have babies and stop loving my pets so much and learn how to cook overly complicated recipes no one really likes anyway and start dressing with an emphasis on my body but not be slutty but also cut my hair shorter because it's intimidating men but not too short because that will also intimidate men and I try too hard if I have dating apps and not hard enough if I don't and...

What more do you want from me? I don't care anymore. I am the person who has to live myself, so what you say doesn't get priority anymore.

[performing-personhood]

I'm glad this has so many notes. As a 39yo now working doing teacher-support secretarial in a high school and seeing for my own eyes what an 18yo actually looks like from the outside: baby, I promise, your life hasn't even started yet.

At 21 you literally just stopped cosplaying adulthood and independence, which is all exactly what you're supposed to be doing. It isn't supposed to be "working" for you yet you literally just got here. It's okay I promise.

Look: I'm a forty year old with a high school diploma and I'm doing okay, it's hard but I'm making it, I'm out here doing it, and so are you and I bet you've made better choices than me. So look at you! Out there, doing it! Fuckin good for you kiddo, you should be proud and if you can't be then you can know your Aunty is proud of you. I'm proud of you just for being. Just for doing it every day out there. One day you will be too, but it's OK if you're not right now, just keep doing it OK? You're doing great. I'm so proud of you kiddo, and I love my nibling very much.

If you ever need someone to be proud of you, drop an ask in my box. I will be proud of you immediately and from the bottom of my heart, OK? For reals. I'm your Aunty now, go drink some water and remember to eat and take your meds, i love you.

For most people, life doesn’t truly begin until they’re 26-30 or older. The way we romanticize and obsess over youth is super harmful. Your life is not over at 21, I promise you. It’s just beginning

[cigarretteluvr]

in my head, we’re still 16 at that house party, leaving our friends to smoke in the side yard. i still look at you with the same excitement in my eyes, and you still look at me like the most precious thing on earth. we pass a joint back and forth, hoping it might count as our first kiss.

[eosofspades]

i didn't have "i'm broken" teenage asexual angst i had "i'm literally being the only reasonable one about this concept and the rest of you are behaving like fucking freaks" perception issues

[holdoncallfailed]

marina abramović for GQ germany

[remyxavierr]

You know, thinking through the night about the anon who was so upset about me saying I looked younger than I am, it is kind of sad, as women, that we even think about looking younger than we are. Society has really gotten into our heads about stupid shit like that. We should be proud of looking our age because we made it that far and that alone is an accomplishment. And no small accomplishment at that, at least for me. But I was smaller than others growing up, smaller than my younger sisters, and looked younger than them as well. I always got told I didn't look old enough for this and that, not tall enough for this ride or that ride. And now that I am in my 30s and am still told by random customers at work and coworkers and my wife's friends that I look much younger than my age, for once looking younger or smaller isn't keeping me from anything like it did while growing up. It is in fact surprising to people that I have lived so much life despite looking like I haven't, and it just makes me happy. My mother is 4'11, and up until a certain age where she just fucking AGED (the evil finally got out of her and showed it's true colours), she always looked "too young to be a mother" and she was "too short to do this" and blah blah. So I've heard this rhetoric my whole life to my mother and then to me. I'm not as short as my mother, but I know that if I stood amongst the class that I graduated with, I'd definitely look younger than them (probably helps that I'm one of the few that didn't have children). Not to say that I FIT IN with the younger people, because I don't care about social media (I only have tumblr) and I don't follow every new trend that appears online, so I don't wear similar clothes to them or follow what new slang is being said this year versus what was said in my 20s, lol. If I stood quietly, you'd wonder, for sure, how old I really was, but then as soon as I spoke, you'd know that I was no youngin'. :P

[brownkatana]

I don’t think people realize how lucky they are for having the right to do mistakes. For having the right to experiment life simply.