Suck You Weren't Warned About

I've long marveled at the fact that everyone is warned about adolescence, about the humiliation, the zits, the uncontrollable urges, but no one is warned about, say, your twenties, which suck at least as much, albeit in a completely different way. There are a lot of things like that out there, suck things that a lot of people experience but aren't warned about.

1. The initial period after having a baby is REALLY HARD, you guys, but not for the reasons you'd expect. The poop and the sleep dep and the screaming are not big deals, but keeping the kid alive and healthy IS. Things just don't work and other things are very expensive.
   
2. Again, your twenties. What a rough decade that is. You're supposed to be well on your way to serious adulthood, but you have no prospects, no skills, and you're still kind of an idiot. It was hard enough for me starting that nonsense around 2000; good luck to those poor little bastards starting off now. Can you say "nothing on your resume, ever"?
3. You get old really abruptly, then your blood pressure gets really high and your hair falls out.
4. You never get a chance to take college seriously after you blow it by doing keg stands for four years.

I know there are more things like this, but now that I bring it up, I'm drawing a blank. I get a "stupid blog post" pass, though, because I have an eight-day old baby. So there.

With love,
-KFR