Why the 20s resonate, but not quite

The last nine years of my life have been...fun. For the most part.
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Explorers, that's what we all are here. In this culture that I grew up in, the years we spend living with our parents/families up until we graduate from college are nothing compared to the years when we try and go out in the world, making names for ourselves. Having jobs, friends, discovering other people and culture, enjoying the outdoors, falling in love, having the power to buy, starting families of our own -- these are all the things that make our 20s mean so much more to us. That era affords us to do things that we only imagined when we were young and wanted so bad to be our own person. It's when we are all physically able to enjoy the challenges and thrills that we wanted to try as we see them on tv.

The 20s offered me a lot of opportunities - some I took more willingly than others, while others have been left for another day or another year. Looking back, this era brought out the opportunities and the situations, and the decisions we took that made us what we are today. I'm well aware now that the decisions I've made have the chilling/warming effects as I go through life daily. I still cringe at the memory of the sticky situations I got into. I can still feel the butterflies when reminded of the moments that warmed my being.

With the new era that I'll be in, I am leading myself to believe that all the experiences and the actions of my 20s are definitely good input for the 30s. It's going to be the era when my character is whole.