Twenty-Something

Pick a career. Pick a city.

Call your mother back.

Have you eaten? Have you slept?

What’s your five-year plan?

Get a pension. Get a hobby.

Stop wasting your potential.

Are you happy? Are you sure?

Have you tried journaling?

When are the kids? Where’s the ring?

You’re not getting any younger.

Be a little more like her.

Have you thought about hunger?

Move out. Move on. Move forward.

Make a budget. Make a choice.

Why so quiet? Why so lost?

Why can’t you use your voice?

Drink more water. Work out more.

Read the news but not too much.

Find yourself. But hurry up.

Stay in touch. Stay in touch.

But go out more. Live a little.

Stop being so serious.

You’re only young once, you know -

Why are you so mysterious?

Just decide. Just commit. Just go.

Stop overthinking everything.

What are you so afraid of?

What does your silence bring?

Pick a career. Pick a city.

Pick a feeling. Pick a path.

Pick a version of yourself

before the whole thing snaps -