the Last Year Of My Twenties

January 17, 2024

Today is my birthday.

I turn 29.

It is a very strange feeling to be entering the last year of my twenties. It doesn’t feel super real. I’m not sure what age I feel like I am, but 29 is not it.

I was talking to a co-worker of mine at the coffee shop that I work at, and she mentioned graduation high school in 2019, and while that does not make her that much younger than me, this statement made me feel rather old. And I wouldn’t say that it was in a negative way, just that there is so much that has happened since I graduated high school 10 years ago, and that I felt like those 10 years heals a lot more time than just 10 years.

This year I really want to soak in life. I feel like this is a goal of mine every year, but this year I want to be really intentional.

I thought that I was going to do a word of the month this year, but I think I changed my mind and want to make it a word of the year, and that word is, you guessed it, intentional.

This year, I want to be intentional about how I spend my time, what movies and shows I watch, what books I read, how I spend time on social media, how I flex my creative muscles. I want this year to not go by unnoticed, but filled to the brim of things that I can look back on and remember fondly. I want to allow myself to try new things and listen to my body better. When I need sleep, I am going to sleep, when I need to eat, I am going to eat.

Do I know what this looks like? Not really. But I am excited to learn as I go.