[siruncledrew]

People with the mindset of "I'm in my 20s, I know all about the struggles of life" are usually primed for a big kick in the pants by life. I'm saying this as someone in their mid-20s. When I was 22, I used to think I knew what adulthood was like after having to work a 9-5 job and pay rent and buy groceries. Hah, was I wrong. There's such a level of naivete based on using a 2-3 year sample size of living independently to project what the next 40+ years (who actually knows how long) of life will be like. Life always finds a way to throw something new at you, and as people age the accumulation of life experience also expands. There really is no replacement for experience, and it's impossible to say "I know what everything will be like ahead of me" without actually having lived it.