You leave the safe and often ramen-scented bubble that is college life, and not seeing your friends every second of every day feels like having a rug pulled out from under you. You still text and call your girls constantly, but you slowly come to the realization that you can never go back to a time when your biggest worry was choosing your costumes for some themed keg party.
Meanwhile, sometimes it feels like you're enjoying your newfound adulthood by dating as many men as humanly possible. Essentially, you’re figuring out what you don’t want in a mate and then discussing said findings with your girls over cocktails as you guys giggle, compare hilarious texts, and swap stories of men behaving badly. As the revolving door to your studio apartment continues to welcome fresh faces, your girlfriends and their familiar inside jokes are the constants in your life.
As you float from dude to dude, your career goals are also coming into focus. According to Reuters, one survey found that as many as 80 percent of people in their twenties feel they are not in the right career, and your girlfriends are helping you come to that realization for yourself as they commiserate with you about their own condescending bosses and crappy work days. Your friends are just as broke as you, and, unlike your parents, they won't judge the fact that you had cereal for dinner twice last week.
By your late twenties, wild, short-skirted clubbing nights will gradually become memories reserved for the annals of your Facebook photo albums. Instead of escaping for girls' trips to Cabo, you begin to spend most of your "fun time" standing up in one another's weddings.
