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When you go out, you try to act like you're still in college...
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Only to realize the next day your body can't handle it like it used to.
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You have to consciously weigh going out vs. getting sleep...
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Because you know going to work hungover is the worst!
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You know you should make friends with your older colleagues, but what do you even talk about?
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And you're too old now to keep hitting up college parties.
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So you get even more confused when people tell you just to act your age.
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Your parents start to throw around the hard questions, like when you'll bring home a nice boy or girlfriend.
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You keep realizing how much harder it is to chill with old friends, and you worry they might judge you if you keep blowing them off.
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You have to set your significant other's standards way low, since you barely have any cash.
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Your friends keep insisting that no one likes you when you're 23.
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It's more important than ever to hide all those questionable Facebook pictures.
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You're constantly on edge about how your family will judge your fledgling career choices.
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People over 25 don't respect your growing existential panic as you approach your mid-twenties.
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You have fewer and fewer excuses for not being able to cook.
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You can't help but subconsciously compare your life to HIMYM...
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Or really to any Nicholas Sparks movie.
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You'll resort to paying for fast food in change at least once in a drunken stupor.
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Asking old professors for advice won't be as helpful as you hope.
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Your job is nothing like you hoped it would be.
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So you begin to understand "working for the weekend" all too well...
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And you realize that your life is defined by what your job is.
But whatever, let the haters hate. You know that being 23 is still somehow awesome.
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