Getting older

Once you get past a certain stage in life, your list of friends becomes pretty stable. Once out of school, you aren't meeting fifty new people a week, cherry picking the best of the lot to be best friends forever with.

So, you're out of school and doing your best to stay young. You're not starting a career. Getting married. Having kids. Placing a down payment on your first home. Opting for open variable interest rate mortgage payments. Working long hours to put something away for your future. There's no his and her toothbrushes in your life.

But they're doing all those things. They being those friends you picked when you were all young together. And, even if you're not growing up, they are, and you still feel like you're getting older.