2014

You can’t ignore how much lower you have to scroll when entering your birth year on forms, which is a tiny (somewhat scary) reminder of how far you’ve come.

Real friends should take care of you as much as you take care of them. That’s how it works.

All hail the dollar pizza.

You say “couch,” they say “gigantic, all-purpose scratching post slash bed.”

I think everyone should have to wait tables at least once in their life, because it really puts a lot into perspective.

2. You begin to compare yourself to other successful people that are your age. At or around the age of 27, you’ll begin to feel like you’re behind in life’s game of Monopoly.

Mitch O’Connell is a Chicago-based photographer. As a 17-year-old, he traveled to NYC to document the now long-lost treasures that Times Square once held in the 80s.

Who knew?

A profound list of all the reasons I’m convinced on a daily (often hourly) basis that I do, in fact, suck at raising another human being.

When it’s too cold to get up to make coffee or turn the shower on or generally be a human.

We have baby showers and wedding parties as if it’s a huge accomplishment and cause for celebration to be able to get knocked up or find someone to walk down the aisle with. These aren’t accomplishments, they are actually super easy tasks, literally anyone can do them.

They’re sort of like dogs, in that “running to the door to greet you when you come home from work” and, honestly, it’s a pretty nice feeling.

If your roommate brings her boyfriend around too much, just walk around with your shirt off.