“Why am I behaving like my teenage self all of a sudden?” Anyone who has that ‘end of term’ feeling needs to read this:
. I’m shirking the career and home responsibilities I’ve spent the last 18 months working on. I keep dreaming about the mischief, scandal and fun I want to be part of in the summer months. I’m done with giving myself a hard time about ‘adulting’. I am 17 again, basically, with that ‘end of school term’ feeling.Olivia Rodrigo album: “How has this teenager reached inside my 30-something soul?”
“I spent so much time and effort focusing on doing a good job at work in lockdown, and I’m just so over it now,” my 29-year-old friend Cleo* tells me. “At the minute, I think I’m pretty much prioritising having fun in the park and I’m going a bit boy mad instead. I guess that’s me acting a bit like a carefree teenager.”
For my fellow 30-something colleague Kayleigh, she’s revisiting the things she loved as a teen: “I’m wearing slogan tees and dungarees on a pretty much permanent basis. I zigzagged my parting the other day, and am even considering buying a pair of jelly shoes. I’ve started craving Sunny D now the weather is warming up, too.
However, Scott warns that it’s important to remain mindful when you take some time out of normal life: “Just be careful. We’ve been sitting in trauma for a long time and people have been feeling guilty, so you do need a way to step out of it. But that’s just as long as you’re not doing it everyday. Mindfully engage with it – use it as a boost rather than something that helps you avoid getting on with life and processing things.
The reality is that, yes, it’s not OK to walk away from adult responsibilities just because the end of this damn pandemic is in sight and the sun is providing some serious vit D. That said, I’m still going to embrace more of those nostalgic, carefree moments as a little reward for getting through this horror show.Sign up for the latest news and must-read features from Stylist, so you don't miss out on the conversation.
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