Only about two weeks left now

Yeah, it's really starting to dawn on me that the 2010s are almost over and to be quite honest, it's definitely giving me mixed feelings. I was 11-20 years old this decade. At the very start, I was still only 10 years old and about to start Year 5 in primary school. Now i'm less than three months off from turning 21, I have been in the workforce for over 18 months and I've just completed my first year in a Certificate III Horticulture course at Tafe. These past nine years have absolutely flown by. 

Part of the reason as to why I have mixed feelings is because, although it had it's fair share of low points for me personally, I also see the 2010s as being a decade of wasted potential. I never got to connect with the pop culture of my teens as much as I would have liked to. There was never a genre of music or a subculture that ever truly "spoke" to me. I liked the indie/hipster sub-culture, but I always saw it as being something targeted more to twenty-something Millennials. EDM, Electropop and Trap were never to my liking. I just wish there had of been some sort of equivalent to the Emo sub-culture of the Mid-Late 2000s, a sub-culture of rock which had it's own unique aesthetic and community on social media. I would have loved to have been 'that' teen who would almost exclusively listen to new Top-40 hits and dress in a certain look/style. In 20-30 years time, I won't be able to look back on the pop culture of the 2010s and say that it was truly "my time". This is the decade where I really should have been the most engaged with the latest trends in pop culture, but I spent so much of this decade just hating everything about it. 

So I do have hope and anticipation for the 2020s. I'll be in my twenties for the entire decade except for the last 9.5 months of it, which means that I will definitely still be young enough to feel engaged with what's going on in pop culture. Hopefully something will come along which is more to my liking. The 2010s do have their positive points, but I want the 2020s to be a decade in which I can truly connect and identify with. Fingers crossed I guess.

I'm too old to care.

Its definitely surreal to look at myself at the beginning of this decade, and myself at the end. I was only 8 years old when the decade began, and now at 18 me and my friends are planning on celebrating new years in a lodge out in the mountains and getting wasted. It actually makes me a little sad that I won't be doing as much growing up in the 2020's as I did in the 2010's.