Gina, 27

It’s never easy outgrowing your favorite TV & Movie Characters.  This is not to say that you’ve outgrown the character in the sense that they’re no longer relatable, like a Winnie the Pooh situation.  Far from it, it’s referring to the fact that while Topanga will forever be frozen in the ABC TGIF Line-up with DJ Tanner & Steve Urkel, I continue to get older, literally out-aging the characters who I looked up to during the most awkward phases in my life.  What am I supposed to do now when dramatic, life-changing events happen without Joey Potter or Buffy Summers there, leading the way?  Who’s a girl to turn to when all of a sudden, your friends are having lively debates about Estate taxes and Mortgage loan rates? 

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Brandy, 25

In your twenties your friends start to do things.  Things like getting married, moving in with serious boyfriends or girlfriends, having children.  You know… those scary things that go along with having a mature loving relationship with another human being. 

These things are foreign to me.  Very foreign.  For whatever reason (and definitely through no fault of my own… right? RIGHT?) I have never been in a serious relationship.  When I go on a second date with someone, it basically makes headline news.  I’ve done my best to accept my plight in the search for love, but one of the worst parts about getting older is that it is becoming less and less easy for me to scoff cynically as I watch my friends do these big-life-changing-relationship-things.  They’re not just getting married anymore because “oh you know, they’re super religious” and no, we can’t continue to sigh cautiously as we say “yeah I know…they are really young to be taking that step.”  Because we aren’t really that young anymore.  Our mid-twenties are indeed the appropriate time to be doing things like committing ourselves to one another.  Ugh.

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