so there was all the build-up, and the party plans, and the worrying about growing old. and then my 25th birthday had all the explosive power of a wet paper bag. which is not to say that i'm over all the anxiety, but that while the party was fun, the birthday was not a momentous occasion. i don't actually feel any older, or more grown up.
but i do still feel like time is just moving too fast...i felt like i was a teenager forever, but my twenties are just flying over me, hardly staying to say hello. and i wanted to live in them for longer than i can; i've had more fun than i ever did as a teenager (that whole outcast thing might have had a dampening effect). and it's true, i haven't done a quarter of the things i wanted to do by the time i was this age.
to imagine what i would
do if things were different.
they are not different."
so here's the list you wanted of things i have accomplished by the age of 25.:
* discovered that i could write
* found friends
* taught at least a hundred children
* saved friends from their sadness
* reconciled myself with my childhood
* helped to raise 8 children
* found Art
* read at least a thousand books
* worked for the government to help people (yeah, it's an oxymoron)
* started a young women's group
* participated in small victories
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