A good article from the NYT on that strange period of life being a 20-something year old.

www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/magazine/22Adulthood-t.html

I eventually concluded that most people spend their age 18-25 years trying to convince themselves that they know everything, and at 25 start discovering how wrong they were.

at 20's I was embarking on a major challenge which I didn't know how challenging it would be, and my friends of that time, were all doing the same, and some even in late teens......marriage. I didn't think I knew it all and at this late time, still do not .....

I can still recall all the visions of that "white picket fence", those blasted sitcoms were lying....