For How Long Will I Be Considered Young? | My 20s

My mind's been busy these past few weeks. My life really isn't very eventful so it's crazy how much other people's shit seems to consume my brain.  I believe it was this Monday or Tuesday when Deev asked me to find the Facebook page of Chris, the guy she's been sort-of-dating for the past two months. Apparently, he's always on it but for some reason, she had been having trouble finding him and I am usually pretty good at the cyber-stalking thing so she enlisted my help. I spent the last 30 minutes at work on my phone trying to find information on this guy using the first and last name she gave me. I narrowed the search by location, and tried to find family members with his last name, in case he didn't use his real name on Facebook. Perhaps, a family member would have him on his friend list. But Facebook proved to be practically useless. Because of how hard it was to find him, I told Deev that his real name must not be Chris. She agreed with me. Although, ...

It seems that where ever I go, I find people willing to baby me. I finally spoke to the Nigerian guy that sits across from me. Well, more like he started talking to me because I'm a fool. Today, we talked about Nigerian food and he asked if I normally ate through lunch. I said, "yeah, I usually just eat simple sandwiches because they're easy". He later buys me a chicken salad from a nearby place. I'm still gushing until now because it was such a sweet gesture from someone I have barely gotten to know yet. I told Deev about it and she was wondering why people just randomly give me things. John, another guy I work with, brings me mangoes every once in a while and shares his food and drinks with me. I used to read into it in the beginning but I've come to realize he's just really nice. Also, I've gotten lucky that there has always been people in Melbourne to help me whenever I needed it. In college, my friends did everything for me too: made me food, ...