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

[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!