One Is The Loneliest Number

It's true, one can be the loneliest number.

20 can also be the loneliest number when your friends are all over 21 years-of-age.

The last time I was this aware of my age was in fifth grade when I had to lie and say I was born in 1986 (making me at the legal age of 13) to sign up for AIM.

It's not even that I have this intense desire to drink alcohol, I just want to hang out with my friends! I'd be fine with a cherry coke, really! I just hate being the young one that can't go out because I'm five months from being 21. I mean, I'm so close to 21, I can smell the cosmopolitan I want to have as my first legal drink! 

Me and my 21/22 year-old friends

There are so many things in the city that you have to be 21 years-old to do. Don't worry, I know it's New York City, and I realize how many great things I can do without being 21 years-old. I realize how many great things I have done without being 21-years-old. It just seems that for an optimal New York City experience, you have to be over 21. Concerts and dinners-- there's professional networking events I can't attend because I'm not 21 years-old. That hurts more than the scene in The Lion King when Mufasa dies. It's really frustrating. I think we can now all realize why Adele skipped a '20' album and went straight to '21'.

I know this may sound like a horribly whiny post, and really, I'm okay because I'm far from lonely. My friends have done a tremendous job in including me in their plans. I just haven't thought about my age like this in a long time. I guess at college I'm too busy going to class, procrastinating on homework, and re-eancting Broadway musicals to notice!