I beg of every young person reading this today: take your 20s. Own your 20s. Do not give your 20s to your pastor. Do not give your 20s to your mother. Do not hand your 20s to some dude you met because you “like him”. It’s okay if your apartments sucks. Resist the temptation to couple for the sake of some assumed stability brought by settling down. A bland one bedroom where you call the shots beats a 4 bedroom home with the wrong partner any day. Don’t be limited by someone else’s expectations too soon simply because it’s the thing to do. We get thirty years to learn this life, thirty years to live it, and thirty years to remember it fondly. Don’t waste your own time.