Are you ready for Saturn Return Girl summer?

There is a line of Avachi to Bethlehem which I once viewed online, printed out on my office printer, and took with me on a road trip in my early twenties (yes, really): “One of the mixed blessings of being twenty, twenty and one year old and even twenty-three years old. is the belief that nothing like this, despite all evidence to the contrary, has ever happened before. Is this quote really difficult? Absolutely. But now that I’m in my early 30s, I’m ready to paraphrase Joan Didion and say that actually, one of the mixed blessings of being 30, 31, and even 32 is realizing that you can continue to be confused and bothered once you no longer have your parents’ health insurance.

It’s obviously nothing new that you can continue to be a failure after you graduate from your 20s (hello, Carrie Bradshaw had six seasons, two movies, and a spin-off!), but I won’t lie not: as chaotic and often miserable as my twenties were, it was also nice to be…what is the expression I’m looking for? ” Compound ? » “Culturally relevant? » “Directly marketed? “There’s certainly a lot I don’t understand about the current zeitgeist, from the rise of soul bonding to the concept of being “boysober,” but as I got further and further along More into my third decade of life, I realized how ridiculous it was to think that everything fun, messy, and ridiculous would disappear from my life once I learned what an FSA account was and paid (a part) of my credit card debt.

As fate would have it, we seem to be entering something I’d like to call a ~Saturn return girl summer~, with Charli XCX’s latest and very memorable album. Kid signifying the true ascendancy of the semi-adult who still wants to go on crazy adventures despite being in possession of an extensive nighttime skincare routine that involves at least one extremely expensive ointment. (God, I could cry the whole time I fell asleep in my 20s, covered in a fine sheen of glitter and pizza grease.) One day I thought my 30s would be spent taking a hot bath on Enya’s “dark sky island” and then I go to bed early, and I’m not going to lie, that do occur with great frequency. But I also want to embarrass myself in the club for “talk talk” at the first opportunity! Women contain multitudes!