i'm a twentysomething

well i have just a few more days of being a twentysomething. there are still a couple of things on my to-do-before-i-turn-30 list like get another piercing in my ear and learn to play guitar better (or should i say learn another strum pattern) but with just three days left and with an exam coming up next week, these things will just have to wait till sometime in my thirties!

this is what one of my favourite musician/songwriters, Jamie Cullum, had to say about being a twentysomething:

After years of expensive education,
a car full of books and anticipation,
I’m an expert on Shakespeare and that’s a hell of a lot
but the world don't need scholars as much as I thought.

Maybe I'll go travelling for a year,
finding myself or start a career.
I could work for the poor though I’m hungry for fame
we all seem so different but we're just the same.

Maybe I'll go to the gym, so I don't get fat,
aren't things more easy with a tight six pack?
Who knows the answers? Who do you trust?
I can't even separate love from lust.

Maybe I’ll move back home and pay off my loans,
working nine to five answering phones.
Don't make me live for my friday nights,
drinking eight pints and getting in fights.

I don't want to get up, just let me lie in,
leave me alone, I'm a twenty something.

Maybe I'll just fall in love that could solve it all,
philosophers say that that’s enough,
there surely must be more. Ooooh

Love ain’t the answer nor is work,
the truth eludes me so much it hurts.
But I’m still having fun and I guess that's the key,
I'm a twenty something and I'll keep being me.

OK so not all of it is exactly my lifestyle (I can't remember the last time I drank eight pints and got into fights) but it's still a fun song. Anyway, they say 40 is the new 30, and I definitely know a good number of thirtysomethings who are living like Jamie here.