Have you ever heard the saying, "college is the snooze bar of life." I heard this a while back from my friend CJ and the more I think about it, the more brillant I think it is. Its meaning implies that most people in college are just delaying the "inevitable" of getting up and facing the real world. This got me thinking, if college is the snooze bar, then what the heck are our 20s?

While watching Daniel Powter's "Bad Day" music video, I realized that our 20s is the "typical bad day." Now this isn't a bad day like you found out your spouse has died, or that your children have been hurt. No, that isn't a typical bad day, that is a horrendous bad day. No, a typical bad day, just like the music video demonstrates, is one where you come home from work thinking, "man today sucked" but for no real reason.

Sure their was no trip to Europe involved today. You didn't meet the love of your life. Work wasn't particularly interesting. But what really made this day bad? Nothing! And their isn't really anything in your 20s that makes it bad either. In fact, for many of us, it might be the "free-est" we'll ever be. We have more money than we ever had previously in our life. Yet most of us (sorry CJ) don't have nearly the responsibility we will have in the future.

I think ultimately the reason many of us in our 20s feel like it is the “bad day” of our life, is because it can be a transitionally lonely time. We have had to depart from our high school & college friends, along with all the amazing memories, and face the world everyone has been telling us about for years. Yet we haven’t necessarily met the one we will love forever, nor have we solidified the friendships that will “last a life time.” It is this loneliness that often feels as if this stage of life is a bad day.

So like Daniel's music video, which just assumes you'll go along with the song and not pay attention to what really is "bad" about the day he is singing about, our 20s too sometimes feel like a "bad day." Their is just something about it that makes us feel that way. So all of you in college, stop hitting the snooze bar, get up, shower, and face your 20s, it’s not as bad as you (or I) think.