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 what you do in your twenties is really hard to escape from. i keep watching people (self included) try to break into new roles, only to revert to known patterns 
 But you can break from those patterns. I was there not long ago. 
 I left my dumb ass early 20s self in the past. I’m so different now, feels like a different life looking back. 
 Wherever you go, There you are. 
 You will have to confront the same challenges, over and over again, until you learned the lesson. Only then can you drop a layer of karma and move on to the next, which will make the previous one look like from another life. After that, there is no way you can go back. You have to move on. 
 Why the need to escape? Is it not possible to love and accept all parts of self and love it 😍 

It is. https://media.tenor.com/rBC40nZ9j8IAAAAC/happymoth-thank.gif
 
 so true but noone seems to know it. Everyone seems to think life "as steps" like "from when I am 15 to when I'm30 will do x y z, but then, I will be in the 30s and will do what 30s yo do" and go on. My father started what I was thinking was "the adult life that someone starts at 40yo" at 15.
Very sad for most younger generations expecting to turning adults and take their part. 

Just one more PHD at 35yo and then adult like real adults!??? House and car???? When children???? Holliwood actors had son at 60yo, no rush mate. 
 Yeah. Got married and had kids in my early twenties and I just stayed a churchy homebody for the following decades. 
 Nothing wrong with that L... 😃  
 Yeah, boring and predictable, and I've spent my entire adult life basically hidden under a rock, but no wild detours. 
 Life's true comforts and joys are often found during those boring, comfortable and predictable times 😃  
 new neural pathways take time to create. patience and kindness towards yourself is good