nickdouglas:

“Today you will buy handsoap. You will end the night with a single window’s width of tabs open in your browser. You will sleep. It’s OK to add completed items in retrospect, if only to record your performed adulthood.”

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What We Have Going for Us | The Hairpin: A guide for those in their late 20s.

The suggestion that I will get more satisfaction from putting an “X” in a box instead of crossing an item off a list seems ludicrous to me.  Perhaps something will happen to me in the next year that will make me come to understand what the author is talking about, but I don’t want it to.  It feels so… old.  Has she tried crossing things off?  Has she experienced the glorious lack of subtlety?  The delicious lack of compromise?  ”Tie up loose ends? Polish? Don’t you see that this bitch is crossed out?  It is doooone.”  Will other adults look at me with less respect, as though I’m some pathetic man substituting a twenty something blonde for a cane?  Oh God, why didn’t I make more lists?  I’m not ready for the boxes!