I once had a 40-something professor who said hed never date a woman over 25.
Maybe thats why this year feels like such an expiration date.
Im not the kind of person who likes to pretend Im going to live to be 100.
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I dont even like to pretend I know whats coming for me in the next decade.
2.At 25, Lawrence Bragg won the Nobel Prize.
Orson Welles createdCitizen Kane.
Janis Joplin made over a million dollars on her first recording.
Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly across the Atlantic alone.
I guess I always thought that by 25, I would have done something big, too.
I call bullshit on most of it.
Why are we so sure that our way is the right way?
Ive got my own lists now.
4.I once had a 40-something professor who said hed never date a woman over 25.
Maybe thats why this year feels like such an expiration date.
I cant decide if that realization is comforting or terrifying.
Sure, change is exhausting, but something about stability scares me.
On the bright side, I cant imagine another version of myself Id rather be.
Of the thousands of people Ive been, Ive only been proud of a few.
For the first time in a long time, I think I like who I am.
6.If Im being totally honest, 25 is the first year of my life that feels likerealadulthood.
Youll get it someday, they tell me.
Im not going to pretend like I know everything.
Im not going to pretend like I dont have a lot left to learn.
Im perfectly comfortable with the idea that Im still growing.
How old do I have to be before they recognize that this is just who I am?
7.I can rent a car now.
Thats cool, I guess?
8.I never actually thought Id turn 25.
When I was in kindergarten, I couldnt imagine first grade.
And when I entered high school at 14, I couldnt imagine graduating at 18.
It was never something I truly believed I could be.
9.By 25, I was supposed to be married.
I was supposed to have two kids.
I was supposed to own a house.
I was supposed to have published a book.
Then again, I decided all of that when I was 10.
Things have changed a lot since then.
10.Sometimes I wonder if, after a certain point, age means anything at all.
I have a 26-year-old friend who seems decades wiser and an 86-year-old grandmother who still swears shes 18.
And then theres me.
I dont really feel young or old.
Maybe I just fall somewhere in between.
But I guess thats the beauty of getting olderno one gets to tell you who you have to be.
