Ok. I officially hate being an adult. I especially hate being in my 20's. As per my policy I won't tell you my exact age but I can assure you I'm over 20 and under 30.
I recently came back to my pet hate about this age. Everything is aimed at KIDS! It drives me crazy. I'm not 16 so I can't do the kid or teen classes. I'm not 30 so my insurance costs a FORTUNE and I'm not elderly so there aren't special groups. Someone please explain just exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life at this age? Have kids? Get drunk? Party all night? Work all day?? Call me crazy but that really doesn't sound like fun! I want to learn new things. Try things I didn't have the discipline for at 16. Music, dance and even gymnastics. Yes I want to try gymnastics and ballet in my 20's, is that illegal? Should I be banned from it?
So I get online and aside from the irritating habit of Google turning up a town from a totally different state dozens of matches come up. Except there is one major problem....EVERYTHING is directed a kids. Under 10's, those over 5, teenagers, those under 20...the list goes on. NOTHING is for adults.
The most frustrating part is that I eventually came up with links for adults. All private lessons. Now I'm not sure about other students but I'm broke. Dismally and totally broke. Especially considering that my car insurance will remain stupidly expensive until I turn 30. All things considered if I had the money to spend $30+ on private lessons I probably wouldn't be living in student accommodation.
So now what??? Can someone PLEASE tell me what the solution is? There must have been some other person on this planet, even perhaps in Australia, who didn't want to stop learning and trying new things when they finished High School. If you are out there tell me what you did? I still want to learn new things and without giving up study to work so I can afford private lessons I'm out of options (and really wanting to avoid going to classes for 10 year olds!).
Seriously though why is this the case? In the list of things I don't understand this is at the top of the list. I honestly don't get what I'm supposed to do with my time. Why is it that everything structured (apart from Uni) is for teens and kids. Camps, summer music programs, computer school challenges, the Rock Eisteddfod...it's all for teens. So what do adults do? Are we not supposed to be interested or is everyone else handed the 'guide to being 20' when they leave school and I missed out? Am I honestly the only one who still wants to try new things? No offence intended (seriously!) but I don't want to hang out with 40 year olds and older people. In some cases I do but not all the time. I do however want to try new classes. Tennis perhaps, or camps where you can do rope courses or archery. Does no one else want to challenge themselves or is the only challenge people aim for a drinking challenge? Or is it that we're expected to know how to play music and dance and stuff and just do concerts?
Now I will enter my second gripe of the week. The few things I can find, and some sound like fun, everything is on a Monday! Now I won't even go in to the fact that my show, Stargate Universe, is supposed to be on Mondays because stupid, annoying, frustrating Channel 10 cut it off after 3 episodes. All I will say is that we CAN do things on other days of the week!
As usual I could rant about this for ages but considering I have class tomorrow (yes I'm on a cruel schedule which makes me study in January!) and it's after Midnight I'll sign off instead BEGGING that you read this and help me find a solution. Am I the only one who thinks this sux?
Give me your thoughts - Do you miss some of the opportunities given to teenagers? Do you want to learn new things? Did you overcome this problem already and if so - how? Please let me know, I'm totally at a loss with this one!
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