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Being 22 is a bit like having a second awkward, teenage phase.
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It's most people's first year of being an actual adult.
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When you're 21 the world says you're officially an adult.
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When you're 22 the world expects you to act like an adult.
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Suddenly you've got more in common with 30-year-olds than 18-year-olds.
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For the first time you don't feel like an impostor wearing actual adult clothes.
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You start to get jealous of teenagers.
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But also you are so glad you're not one of them anymore.
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For the first time in your life there is slang you don't understand.
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And technology you're not sure you get the point of.
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You now know how your parents felt when they claimed it was weird when all the things they wore as a kid started coming back into fashion.
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Your friends are just starting to have babies and get married.
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You get really freaked out when you realise that famous people are younger than you.
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You have a genuine phobia of the word "career".
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It's terrifying to think of how much your parents had achieved by the time they were 22.
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There are only eight little years until you're 30.
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Which makes you think that you need to find someone to marry ASAP.
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But then you realise you have a WHOLE EIGHT YEARS, until you're 30.
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In some situations you feel really young.
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And in some situations you feel really old, like when you realise that some kids today will probably never use a landline.
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At 22 some people treat you like an adult, and some people still treat you like a teenager.
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It's a weird age, which is why Taylor wrote a whole song about it.
