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turned 22 a month ago and immediately understood the song nothing new by taylor swift; itās as if a lightbulb was involuntary switched on in my brain
sidenote: while iām not a swiftie, i can appreciate her dedication to describing what it feels like to be 22 (see also: 22 by ts)
May 20, 2025
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bc I moved state (away from home) for the first time right before turning 22 and it was the best decision I ever made! really happy, have lots of new friends, feel v independant and happier and have a more full life than ever before :)) also bc of t swift's 22 hehehe I have waited a good many years for this age. its also had my first year of med school and enjoyed it which is a big relief.
Apr 1, 2024
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happy (early?) birthday!! š Idk what advice to give because i feel like the 20-somethings now are more emotionally aware than the 20-somethings from even as recent as a decade ago, but tune into your body, give yourself grace, and listen to othersā stories without feeling pressured to model your life after someone elseās. & if you donāt know what you want your life to look like yet thatās okay! ā¤ļø
At 21 I was in my senior year of college and engaged to be married within the year after graduation. In the southern religious environment we were in this wasnāt abnormal, but in retrospect that was soooo young to get married and I donāt think I would have so quickly if I hadnāt been so desperate to get out of a problematic family situation that involved some financial abuse. Despite changing A LOT over the past decade+ my partner and I are still together, and I look back at 21 as a time when I most followed the social script expected of me and coasted on that for a while, until it all started to fall apart (in an ultimately good if devastating way) when I became a mom at 24.Ā
tl;dr: my 21 was tame and mellow and happy but i had no idea who i was or what i could be and now i do have a stronger sense of that at 32 and that feels better
Jun 11, 2024
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just turned 23 today!
i feel like you always got these existential crisis in your early twenties. (or is that just me?)
but the number 23 is particularly such a strange age.
you feel confused about in which end of the spectrum that you fell in. you are no longer considered to be a teen, but you also donāt have much of a responsibility to be called an adult just yet. youāre an in-between.
i guess i can relate to when mark hoppus sang whatās my age again, which legit sums up the whole confusion in being the age of 23. of still feeling like youāre not an adult just yet, but also forced to act your age.
peter pan complex really does exist huh?
Jan 1, 2025
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we come to this placeā¦to yap.
we come to pi.fyi to laugh, to cry, to care. because we need that, all of us.
that indescribable feeling we get when weāre able to customize our profiles and we see creativity weāve never seen before.
not just entertained, but somehow reborn together. dazzling recommendations on a huge desktop, or mobile, screen. kindness that i can feel.
somehow, social networking feels good in a place like this.
our pi.fyi community feels like the best parts of us, and being perfectly imperfect feels perfect and powerfulā¦
because hereā¦we are.
pi.fyi, we make social mediaā¦better.
5d ago
today i held open the door for an elderly couple and the husband said āthank you so much miss!ā with so much shock & appreciation in his voice & on his face, i immediately responded āof course!ā
no one should be that surprised to receive a no brainer act of kindnessā¦
get kinder today, right nowānot later ! ! !
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everyday is a surprisingly complex
choice between little purse or big purse;
(recentlyā¦big purse has been winning)
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