Jemma Spike

Your 20s are the time when you have more what-ifs available to test and more regret to avoid by just trying.

Third, I don't think you feel locked into one identity yet.

You don't have the weight of legacy weighing you down.

If you start in your 30s, your 40s, your 50s, which of course you can, 70s, 80s, 90s, it's going to be a little bit harder because your identity is already solidified around

probably one thing.

There's reputation.

There's history.

You are the lawyer.

You are the accountant.

You are the mother.

You have found your role.

Changing direction, the older you get and the longer you wait can feel like you are dismantling more, but in your 20s, that structure just isn't there.

The structure is a lot looser.

You're allowed to contradict yourself.

People almost expect it.

That you can be like pre-law one day, a photographer the next.

You can move cities without it being called like a midlife crisis.

You can reinvent your style, your politics, your ambitions, like your goals.

And it's normalized.

It's seen as exploration, not instability.