You can already, drink, drive, vote, buy cigarettes, rent a car, and you’ve already gotten stoned and thought about “what it means” to be a quarter-century years old. So fuck it - let’s do this.Ģ6 is perhaps a little less monumental than 25, at least on paper. After experiencing a moment of disquiet concern that I might be going totes senile in my “old” age, I realized that it was not only okay, but entirely appropriate to write one of these again, and maybe every year.

So I started writing this list of things that happens when you’re 26, and halfway through, I realized that last year, I wrote a very similar article about turning 25, which I had completely forgotten about.

Let’s not pretend anything can come near the irrevocable freedom that comes with that birthday.)

But upon closer, lazy inspection, 26 is surprisingly important, and full of moments that possibly mark a more substantial, albeit subtler, transition than any other year of your 20s (except 21. There’s nothing acute, stark, painful, or anxious about this age. I turned 26 last week, so naturally, I have been casually musing about how I feel about the age.

Perfect work shift for 26 year old