7 'bucket-list' items you can stop worrying about completing in your 20s

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Slow. Down.

• If you have a bucket list for your 20s, it should be personal to you.
• You don't necessarily have to include experiences like running a marathon or quitting your job.
• So if you haven't lived a life of adventure and become your happiest, most successful self by age 30, it's OK.

Everyone's got regrets - the countries they should have visited, the people they should have asked out, the boss they should have told off.

And if you listen to those regrets, it can make you feel like you've got do everything now - before it's too late and you're burdened with kids, or debt, or creaky knees.

Slow down. If you're drafting a bucket list for your 20s, it should be personal to you - not littered with experiences that other people wish they'd had. Below, find seven items you shouldn't feel obligated to include on that list, and why.