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VISUALS BY NATALIE SONG
I’ve realized that I am, in fact, turning 20 very shortly. I was under the impression that I could keep on living in my sweet delusion that I’ll be a teenager forever. No, I will not be discussing the fact that my last two years of being a teenager were spent in quarantine.
Turning 20 has given me a new appreciation for The Great Gatsby. I am Gatsby, and my green light is a world in which I was allowed to remain a teenager forever, dammit!
I’ve just been informed that I’m no longer the target demographic of young adult fiction?!? Apparently, I’m a “new adult” now. I am now deeply afraid to reread my favorite YA books. What if I no longer like them? What if I no longer see myself in them? On an even more disturbing note, I’m now one year away from being the target demographic of Forever 21…
Well, Lorde, it’s been almost four years and all of your music has yet to leave my monthly playlists, so where do we go from here?!
What do you mean Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, and Charli D’Amelio are all younger than me and already more successful than I’ll ever be?? Brb, gotta go ponder where I would be if I’d made a TikTok dance video last year.
