26

[amalthya]

I thought I should mention this, but like, I'm not excited about turning 26.

In fact, it's sort of creepy, because it does mean that I'm "almost 30" (as many of my friends are nearly anyway), and, as I've mentioned several times, that I'm in the "second montage" of When Harry Met Sally with Scary Journalist Hair™...

Not just that, but I remember knowing older people when I was younger, and the automatic expectations I applied to them. Have I really accomplished the amount I should have at 26? Am I somehow on the right path? Would I really know if I was?

It somehow feels more weighted than 25 too. Like this should be the Quarter Life Crisis.

I mean, I could have chosen so many other paths too. I mean, damn, I could have been married by now (and probably divorced).

It doesn't make me any less happy, but it does certainly feel like the years go by very fast indeed. Faster than you mean them to? Faster than you're able to keep up?

I was prompted to find photos of my prom after a comment by gatsbys_regret, and I became immersed in looking at incredibly old photos, realizing that a good deal of them that I remember relatively freshly in my mind are now 10 years old.

10 years. Wow. Is it always going to be like this?

Sure, I've got a good memory, but it's never felt particularly long until now...

Comments

[congogirl.livejournal.com]

Um. You are not almost 30. I can't tell you how much has happened to me between 25 and 29 1/2. I realized on Friday night that I've reached the point at which, not only have I known people for a long time, but there are folks I haven't SEEN in 5 years.

The days go slowly. The years are going fast.

[amalthya.livejournal.com]

well, I guess too that a lot of the people in those picture (actually, most) I don't speak to anymore...

Let alone see!

[congogirl.livejournal.com]

Oh I guess maybe I should qualify that -- people I like and want to see! I went to a BBQ on Friday and saw a friend from grad school. I graduated 4 years ago, I think she was done before that. That's what makes me stop and think.

But I like reflection. There is an Indigo Girls lyric (OK I have NOT listened to them religiously in about 10 years but this always stuck with me) that I like:

every five years or so I look back on my life / and I have a good laugh

I've definitely reached that point.

[amalthya.livejournal.com]

hee hee. I used to listen to IG religiously too. I guess it's more that some of those people were so close, I could have never imagined going 10 years without talking to them...

Hence writing to them now! Mua Ha Ha!

[gatsbys-regret.livejournal.com]

In the above entry, you forgot to insert "witty" before "comment by gatsbys_regret." Just sayin'.

[amalthya.livejournal.com]

I'm not in charge of your insertions!

[franklymydear.livejournal.com]

I'll be 25 in four, five months. I'm really trying not to think about it.

I had to giggle at the "Scary Journalist Hair" bit... :)

*hugs* for the rest. Just wait till you reach the 50 milestone. That'll really be freakout time.

[amalthya.livejournal.com]

heheh. Knowing me, there'll be MANY a freakout long before 50 ;)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

[booksymagnifico.livejournal.com]

YES in Entebbe it's after midnight and thus your birthday! not here in the states yet but over there yes yes yes! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! ZAnd fear not 26 was a great year for me, it'll be for you too I'm sure! And yeah at least you're not almost 30!!! You've got Plenty of youth, vivaciousness, and beauty! Remember that youngin! ;) And also HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY

[amalthya.livejournal.com]

*grinning*

Thank you, bu. It's definitely a year that holds lots of promise, and that's all that really counts.

*love*