What it takes to be 24-year old lady?

1. Nobody expects you to have your life completely together yet. You can still be figuring out exactly what you want from about love, career, family, politics, and life without people telling you it’s time “grow up.” (via Thought Catalog)

2. You’ve got enough experience to feel at least somewhat confident in your ability to handle what life throws at you.

3. Sometimes you will alone but now lonely, you know how to cheer up easily.

4. Everything seems odd and mysterious for you but somehow it excites you to know more about what life has to offer.

5. You are likely to find what you are passionate about, you feel brave when you pursue it, and it gives you the chill that you are doing what you love most of the time.

6. You learn how to handle responsibility and how to pay back your parents from all the things they have done for you.

7. You tend to appreciate everyone around you even the smallest details in life.

8. You’ve got a good idea where your relationships stand with your friends from all walks of life whether it’s college, high school, your workplace, etc.

9. You are way more financially conscious if you hadn’t been before. Calculating how much you need to pay off for something or save up by a certain time, becomes important to you.

10. You become conscious about yourself. You learn how to maintain your skin care routine and how to have a good looks every time you go out.

11. You became tough and brave in whatever life throws at you. Problems made you into steel and molds you to have a heart that understands most of the time.

12. You enjoy every moment with everyone.

13. You start to build connections and friendships in the long-run.

14. Not that you aren’t ever able to change your life, but at 24 a drastic change in any facet of your life won’t raise red flags or lead people to think you need an intervention.

15. While you’re still not sure how to completely achieve all your goals, you have a better handle of the right people you need to speak with. And how to navigate certain things through networking. (You’ve hopefully also learned networking is a two-way street.)

16. You crave more in people than just the superficial. You want interesting conversations, reliability, and enlightenment. Not just excitement and fun.

17. You understand your parents now and you know how to support them in a right way.

18. You are likely to enjoy small talks and conversation with someone you loved.

19. You know how to manage your time and set your priorities in the best that you can.

20. You love being alone, you can walk or go to your favorite coffee shop with your own company.

21. You love to dig into books that will nourish your soul.

22. You feel old enough to know better but young enough to know that you’ve got the rest of your life ahead of you to get it right. And still have lots of fun along the way. 

23. You value every relationship and you know what to let go and when to hold on.

24. Nobody is going to tell you you’re wasting away your 20s if you choose to stay in more than you stay out. It’s that age where people understand you might just be a homebody or possibly, just not into going out as much.