i'm 25 in just under 3 weeks or something, but it's not really an issue to me, as long as i'm having fun i don't really care too much about my future, as long as i don't screw everything up for myself.

if i was still like this at 30 i would be more worried, but i'm quite happy to just ride the fun times until there is a housing crash to leap onto!

I have come to love my youthful vitality and appearance, whilst appreciating that all the stuff I want to do now won't happen unless I start bucking up my ideas and getting off my arse and growing up a bit. Its good. I still have potential. I can put up with another year of not being able to do anything if it means i get to be like this.

I wasn't the sort of kid who really had much of an idea of what I'd be doing at 22. I've just finished uni, am applying for a PGCE and am working full time outside of academic holidays for the first time. On the other hand I'm kinda out in the sticks until next June, so sometimes feel like I'm not having the exciting lifestyle someone my age should have.

But then I don't know. Someone asked me if I felt 22 the other day (which I'm aware is still young) and I couldn't answer because I didn't have a clue what they meant.

things are finally starting to go the way i want. it's nice!

and I think I've had an exciting enough life. I wish I was travelled a bit more but I know I've done more than a lot of my friends who are happy in the confines of Dublin. When I was young I thought I'd be married by now.

No point in fighting it... just enjoy it. I'm happy to be out of my twenties... which was a very confusing decade, that's for sure. I know who I am, what I want, and where I want to be now. Learnt from the mistakes. I know more about what I want...

Society has changed so much... as a result, I think the lines between 'age' have also blurred. I don't consider someone of say, 48, to be old (I have said this before but have friends who are in their 40s who are far more rock and roll than the average 22 year old)...

I think it depends on who you are as an individual.

That's my two bob! Bye!

I am still fairly young (22) so I'm not overly worried about my career at the moment. I'm having a fun time of things and have no responsibilities at the moment. This will all change next year when my parents throw me out. But I'm happy enough now.

A girlfriend would be nice though.

apart from observing that you could easily hve a child on the way by age 25.
PS I didnt plan my life it just happened.

I'd have felt a bit dishonest 'planning my life' or ensuring it ran according to plan

im younger than a lot of people, and have achieved more than a lot of people, and i feel like im basically getting better in every way. apart from putting on a bit of weight. but to gush a bit cos im caffeined to fuck, i feel that my music is getting infinitely better and that im going to be well famous pretty soon, and my girlfriend is the best person in the world.

I'm 23, which to be honest, doesn't feel that much different from 20 or 21 really. I kind of wish I'd spent more time with my friends, i.e. regular holidays and stuff, but I think we're going to start doing that next year which will be good as nearly all of us have jobs now. I'm not bothered about getting older really, I'm more worried about still being stuck in this craphole, earning very little money, living at home and being an even bigger loser than I am already!

I go through bouts of nostalgia now and then, and also bouts of... looking forward to getting older.
I also thought I'd be with child by now, or at least by the time I was 24, as I think that's when my Mum had my eldest sister.
I also thought I would be an artist, or a writer. As it is, i'm in a job I dislike so much it makes my teeth itch.

In conclusion: Largely yes, but sometimes no.

One thing I do remember is that I never thought about my age or analysed what it was that I 'should have' or 'expected to have' done by any age.

I never took any measure of my life by age it was measured instead by the girlfreinds that I had the freinds I had, the places I went to the bands I was into and 'what I wanted to do next'

ALthough Im not criticising you FOR analysing your age against where you are now. I dont think it is an entirely healthy perspective to encourage.....OK you might not be able to stop doing it completely, but I think you should relegate it (priority wise) untill you are out of your 20's at least.

It's all come together nicely over the last 18 months or so. The next step is to get a few more qualifications so I can start earning loadsa wonga.

i was an uptight and cynical teenage loner. i'm now 32 and mellowed enough to be able to have friends and stuff. so yeah, being this age is much better than being a teenager.

and i spent most of my 20's working my arse off, so i'm kind of set up now and can coast a bit, enjoy the kids, enjoy art, my band and music.

that all looks a bit 'yay me' doesnt it? i'm just basically saying dont fear the reaper.