i don’t think people should have to work in their 20s i think they should just be government designated Adventure Years where you’re paid to wander the country and go on journeys of self discovery and have gay sex and try different foods and sing badly in cars and create enemies and find fleeting father figures and sometimes commit crimes
op just reinvented the 17th century tradition of the grand tour like that
I, for one, would relish the resurgence of going on an all-expenses paid trip to Italy, gorging yourself on pasta, having a mad love affair, and commissioning a massive portrait of yourself wearing a designer leopard-print suit, as an essential part of the coming-of-age process