Things That Get Hard For Men After 25

By Madhu Babu

Life after 25 is a new and exciting phase of life for men. This is your starting periods of adulthood, leaving behind a more playful and innocent life. You would be at the end of your major graduation or beginning of work life, a phase of transition from carefree life full of dreams to a phase when you are set out to pursue those dreams.

Getting past 25 years of age, you would no longer be confined to world of books and class rooms. You would be ready to take up lots of responsibilities and control over your life ahead. You would be looking forward to a career that would define your life. Life would no longer as innocent and simple as it was before turning 25. Love and dating will have a whole new meaning here on.

You won't be catching up with friends as often as earlier. Things like late night parties will take back stage. No more first day first shows of your favourite movie. You would no longer be able to eat as well as you wish, with weight management and healthy diet taking over your eating habits. You will no longer be dreaming about your future as much as you used earlier. You would be thinking twice before splurging your money like with your pocket money.

Here are things that hard after turning 25.

Staying up late nights

Staying up late nights

As a student or a teenager, your daily night routine would stretch past 11pm to accommodate chatting, talking on phones and watching latest crime shows or movies. After 25 years of age your priorities change and make it difficult to push beyond 9pm.

Drinking!

Drinking!

Well you would not stop drinking your favourite beer or taking shots at the counter, but not as much as you would have earlier. Your friends would not be as adventurous to give you company to such extravaganzas. Other thing you would no longer get is the happy hour bargains.

Dating

Dating

The whole dating for fun and for the heck of it would change. Here on your dating motive would be to find your soul mate or least a mate to get married. After 25 years you no longer feel like hitting on every other girl in the party.

Road trips

Road trips

After 25 years of age, when you have started your career and you are typically confined to work and schedules with deadlines haunting you like pack of dogs that just don't let you off. Will get harder to pull off a cross country hereon.

Clothing

Clothing

Dressing is one thing that would change drastically after turning 25 years of age. You no longer get to dress up in a funky or cool way with graphic on your tee reading a catchy one liner. Even your casuals get a bit formal and quarter century look.

Diet

Diet

Till sometime ago you could have hogged just about anything junky to super junky like pizzas, juicy burgers etc without giving much thought. After getting past 25 years of age you longer can afford to escape the calorie count and diet with health factors.

Spending

Spending

After 25 years of age, you would find it difficult to splurge your money as you did when your pockets were refilled by your parents. As you would have hard earned it, You think twice before spending.

Friends

Friends

As you grow up you make lots of friends who stick around for life. After 25 years of age, quality friends will b e hard to come by and when you look back, you will find most of your lifetime friends were acquaintance in your pre-twenties.

Story first published: Friday, November 15, 2013, 22:57 [IST]
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