Meg Jay Quotes

To Look Twenty-nine. The Young Look Older And The Old Look Younger, Collapsing The Adult Lifespan Into One Long Twentysomething Ride. Even A New Term - Amortality - Has Been Coined To Describe Living The Same Way, At The Same Pitch, From Our Teens Until Death. This Is A Contradictory And Dangerous Message. We Are Led To Believe The Twentysomething Years Don't Matter, Yet, With The Glamorization Of And Near Obsession With The Twenties, There Is Little To Remind Us That Anything Else Ever Will. This Causes Too Many Men And Women To Squander The Most Transformative Years Of Their Adult Lives, Only To Pay The Price In Decades To Come. Our Cultural Attitude Toward The Twenties Is Something Like Good Old American Irrational Exuberance. Twenty-first-century Twentysomethings Have Grown Up Alongside The Dot-com Craze, The Supersize Years, The Housing

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