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The greatest lesson wasn’t one I read from a book or learned from a professor. It wasn’t about how to prepare for my career or how to live on my own.

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When you’re in the grip of the quarter life crisis, you will have two competing impulses: the impulse for stability, and the impulse for novelty.

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Thirty: the milestone birthday we all dreaded in our twenties.

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Do I continuously try to make improvements in my life? 

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For me (and the rest of my peers who find themselves in the same life stage as me), counting the small things is getting harder and harder because this was supposed to be the time to count the big things in life.

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Since March of 2020, the whole world has undergone one thrilling, continuous, collective existential crisis. The plans we made, the future we pictured, it doesn’t exist anymore. We’re a generation of fucked up individuals, and we’re the ones who have to clean up this mess.

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They told me the hardest part of my twenties would be the low balance in my bank account. They told me the hardest part of my twenties would be the revolving door of men who either didn’t fit me or who took my heart, broke it, and left.

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Twenty-nine will be the year I choose myself. It is the year I heal from the chaos, the pain, and the uncertainties. It is the year I recognize my unhealthy behaviors brought on by my traumas.

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As a young girl in this big world, it is so easy to be standing so strong one minute and be completely drowning the next.

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21 is the time of not having a plan and just winging it. If it happens, it was meant to be, and if not, oh well—you’re only 21.