it's a wonder i can think at all

It might be a quarter life crisis…

Being 25

Pros

• I just ate banana bread for dinner
• No bed time
• Ability to show up or not show up for things - including day to day life
• At any moment - I can change my mind and be a painter - a baker - a candlestick maker?
• Ability to follow the latest craze and not look like too much of an idiot - Zumba, boyfriend style jeans, blazers over ironic t-shirts, one thousand bracelets on your arm, etc.
• The ability to relocate without uprooting anyone else’s life.
• Having young kids think you are still cool - and your parents friends as well.
• Having the free time to read a book… or attempt to write one

Cons

• My Mom isn’t here to tell me it’s not OK to eat banana bread for dinner.
• Lack of sleep
• Spending too much of the last month in doors
• Lack of direction and focus
• Looking like a dumb trendy idiot.
• Subletting - renting - first last and security.. lack of roots
• The fact that you are far enough from being really young that your parent’s friends think you are cool.
• Never finishing a book - the ones you read and the one you “write”

Being twenty-five is like being all and nothing at the same time. I have a feeling when I am 30 I will miss being 25. I sure do miss being 20.

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