just feel like iām in that sheās about to get her life together scene in a movie (aka my entire twenties)
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Life is fucking confusing, and every want comes with a doubt.
As far as I can tell, your 20s (Iām 27) are about cobbling together a life while wondering if you should blow it all up. And then someday, hopefully, you fall in love with yourself (or something) and that love becomes a foundation for everything else.
I know people who have built things up and torn them down, people who have made irrevocable choices, people who are coasting. I want all of their lives, sometimes, because Iām sick of the choices I made. I think thatās just fear of commitment, and not taking good care of myselfābut who knows, maybe Iām about to make some choices for the plot.
The people who seem to have it all figured out may be crumbling beneath the surface (me irl). The ones I trust the most know how to look around and say āthere but for the grace of god go I.ā Youāre never too old to let whatever youāve been collecting slip through your fingers and choose again.
Jul 11, 2024
Iām a senior in high school. Iāve always been scared of growing upāchange used to twist my stomach. I liked the routine: the same halls, the same faces, the predictability of it all.
but now? I want change more than anything. I want to take my exams, get into college, and finallyĀ breathe. high school has given me everything it couldāevery storyline played out. Iāve laughed, cried, gone through every clichĆ©. thereās nothing left to squeeze out of this chapter
I remember being a junior, thinking Iād be heartbroken to leave. but I outgrew that feeling faster than I expectedā¦
I think rewatchingĀ FriendsĀ for the fourth time is helping. that show has this way of making me feel okay even when everythingās uncertain. like, maybe itās fine not to have it all figured out. maybe change isnāt something to fear but something to lean into
I want to grow. I want to step into new adventures, new messes, new moments that donāt feel like reruns. Iām still scared, a little. but I want this now
change doesnāt mean losing who I amāit means becoming more of who Iām meant to be
May 6, 2025
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happy (early?) birthday!! š Idk what advice to give because i feel like the 20-somethings now are more emotionally aware than the 20-somethings from even as recent as a decade ago, but tune into your body, give yourself grace, and listen to othersā stories without feeling pressured to model your life after someone elseās. & if you donāt know what you want your life to look like yet thatās okay! ā¤ļø
At 21 I was in my senior year of college and engaged to be married within the year after graduation. In the southern religious environment we were in this wasnāt abnormal, but in retrospect that was soooo young to get married and I donāt think I would have so quickly if I hadnāt been so desperate to get out of a problematic family situation that involved some financial abuse. Despite changing A LOT over the past decade+ my partner and I are still together, and I look back at 21 as a time when I most followed the social script expected of me and coasted on that for a while, until it all started to fall apart (in an ultimately good if devastating way) when I became a mom at 24.Ā
tl;dr: my 21 was tame and mellow and happy but i had no idea who i was or what i could be and now i do have a stronger sense of that at 32 and that feels better
Jun 11, 2024
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dressed up a bit to fight the monthly pre-menstruation im feeling ugly vibes. i think i won (for today)
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