Do You Need To Let Your Bad Girl Out?

[caption id="attachment_827541" align="aligncenter" width="1068"] Bigstockphoto.com/African American woman laughing and dancing isolated on black.[/caption] Everybody needs to explore their wild side at some point. It’s an important coming of age experience! Yes, I said coming of age, meaning that even if you are in your forties, if you never let the “bad girl” in you out, then you haven’t fully matured. In order to be totally responsible, grounded, stable and calm, you need to have your head in the clouds, let your crazy out, and be anything but calm for a while. You can see these parts of yourselves as little viruses you need to expel, or really wonderful sides of yourself you need to explore—however you need to view them, they need to be acknowledged or they’ll force their way out (sometimes at the worst times!) So, do you need to let your bad girl out? Here are a few signs. [caption id="attachment_618085" align="alignleft" width="422"] Corbis Images[/caption]

You feel uneasy at night, and you don’t know why

I can tell you why: it’s because you wasted another day living out the same exact routine that you live every day. You didn’t grab life by the cojones. You didn’t make the most of your youth, vitality, and creativity that day.       [caption id="attachment_703786" align="alignleft" width="420"] Image Source: Shutterstock[/caption]

You try to make your humdrum life exciting

You’re trying to introduce Margarita Mondays to the office, and softly play x-rated Rihanna songs at your desk. You’re looking for ways to make being a little naughty, safe.           [caption id="attachment_704555" align="alignleft" width="420"] Shutterstock[/caption]

You’re fascinated with the one bad girl you know

That one bad girl you know—you stalk her on Instagram. You eavesdrop on all of her conversations. You ask her a dozen questions if you find her in the bathroom. She seems like a celebrity to you.       [caption id="attachment_608920" align="alignleft" width="500"] Image Source: Shutterstock[/caption]

You’ve never peed anywhere besides the women’s restroom

Speaking of restrooms, those are the only places you go to the bathroom! You’ve never used the men’s restroom when the women’s line was too long, and you’ve never peed behind a dumpster because you just couldn’t wait until your group got to the next bar. If you haven’t peed outside, you haven’t lived. [caption id="attachment_711192" align="alignleft" width="420"] Image Source: Shutterstock[/caption]

You’ve only slept with guys you could marry

You’ve only slept with men you could envision a future with and would be proud to bring home. There isn’t one man you’ve slept with, who the memory of makes you cringe, laugh, and cover your face.         [caption id="attachment_709772" align="alignleft" width="420"] Image Source: Shutterstock[/caption]

You’re all about adventure movies/books right now

You’re escaping in books about women who travel the world, have raunchy sex lives and live on the outskirts of society.       [caption id="attachment_702082" align="alignleft" width="420"] Image Source: Shutterstock[/caption]

You want to shove the hot barista into a closet

Every time that one hot barista at the coffee shop makes your drink, you daydream about shoving him into the utility closet and doing nasty things to him.       [caption id="attachment_700482" align="alignleft" width="420"] Image Source: Shutterstock[/caption]

You marvel at women who wear provocative clothing

You gawk at women in tight, low-plunging outfits as if you’re a man checking them out. You’re really just thinking, “How do they do that with so much confidence? How come I can’t do that?”       [caption id="attachment_618197" align="alignleft" width="426"] Shutterstock[/caption]

You have clothes like that, but they’ve never been out

You have a couple of tight, low-plunging dresses. But you hide them far back in your closet, with the tags on, like your dirty little secret.         [caption id="attachment_704584" align="alignleft" width="420"] Image Source: Shutterstock[/caption]

Your mom would wear your clothes

Your mom would (and has) wear your clothes. She likes everything you own. You shop at the same places. People think you’re sisters.           [caption id="attachment_616901" align="alignleft" width="378"] Corbis Images[/caption]

Actually, your mom approves of every part of your life

You’ve never really done anything of which your mother wouldn’t approve. Oh, honey.           [caption id="attachment_722629" align="alignleft" width="377"] Shutterstock[/caption]

You’ve barely traveled

You’ve never left the country. You have to leave the country—going somewhere where nobody knows you, and where you’re thrown into new cultures, is the only way to release your deeply-trapped bad girl.           [caption id="attachment_825950" align="alignleft" width="500"] Credit: Bigstock[/caption]

You’re acting out in strange ways

Like moving your coworker's photo two inches to the left, putting whiskey in your coffee, or leaving the office one minute before you’re supposed to.           [caption id="attachment_626166" align="alignleft" width="453"] Corbis[/caption]

You think Lena Dunham’s life in “Girls” looks “quirky” and “fun”

You romanticize the lives of women who are total train wrecks. You think, “Hey, at least they have the guts to do it!”         [caption id="attachment_695063" align="alignleft" width="420"] Image Source: Shutterstock[/caption]

You’re daydreaming/distracted/living on travel blogs

You are having the hardest time focusing on anything right now—work, conversations with your friends, yoga class. Your inner bad girl is screaming, “Let’s get out of here and travel and make bad decisions! I’m bored!”

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