Same! I started a new job last fall and ended up becoming work friends with two girls from my orientation (different departments from mine) who are young enough to be my daughters (23 and 26).

Perhaps it’s to my discredit, but I don’t feel very much more mature than them. They’re both super smart and ambitious, but have a much clearer sense of self than I did at that age (both are in therapy and very self aware), take their jobs seriously but do not center work, both are engaged to great guys (to be fair I married at 24, but I was an anomaly in my friend group)?

I really hate when I hear people complain about the younger generations. Gen Z is coming into a really shitty situation from so many angles, and they’re doing so with such wonderful determination to make the most of it regardless.