This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at CUA chapter.
Turning 21 before your friends do is a blessing and a curse. For a just a short amount of time your friends look at you as if you have just discovered the 8th wonder of the world, but being 21 before all of your friends can come with its challenges. So, here are 10 ways to express how it feels to turn 21 before all of your friends do (as told by “Game of Thrones”).
- For your birthday week you feel like the baddest b**ch and you feel like you can’t hang with people who aren’t just as bad.
- The feeling you get when you still can’t go to a trendy bar because none of your friends can get in.
- You feel exponentially older than your group of friends, even though you turned 21 less then twenty-four hours ago.
- Everyone wants you to go to the liquor store for them and you’re just like….
- The day of your 21st birthday your stress level decreases a ton when you realize you don’t have to memorize every aspect of a not-so-real ID like everyone else.
- When you’re dying of a hangover the day after your birthday and your friends have to remind you who you are and why you need to rally.
- When your friends ask how it feels to be 21.
- The next day when your friends try to explain what your not-so-sober self did the night before, but you feel like you have to keep it cool because ya know you’re 21 now.
- When your birthday week is over, but you still think your much cooler and sophisticated than everybody else.
- And finally when you realize your 15 minutes of fame amoungst your friends is over.