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I met this sweet 79 year old lady in the van I took from Augusta to get to the airport in Atlanta. She was heading in the same direction I was, but for a different reason. I was heading back home and she was attending a wedding for her granddaughter which maybe a ceremony that signified the start of a new home. She was 4x older than me and to think that she has lived 4 different lives and experiences in the same time I grew up to be a young adult male, kind of puts things into different perspectives. One thing I noticed is that she mentioned many parts of her significant life into a span of multiple years. "I lived at X for Y amount of years," or " I was in this club for Y amount of years." Spent "Y amount of years in X" and "Y amount of years have gone by since I've been at X or Z," its kind of humbling yet a a conversation you'd never forget. Yes, she has made it to 80, but I have made it to 20. One day I'll be 30 then 40 then 50. Maybe one day I'll reach 80, as she did. She eventually ended the topic with, "Now that I am this age, tomorrow is not promised. I've started to mention to doctors that I will be turning 78 next year, then 77 the year after. I can no longer take these years for granted, no longer do the things I've once done without complications or consequences." With that, I've come to the conclusion that no matter how many years I've existed into this world, I will be grateful to experience this amazing world for "Y amount of years" and I will be happy to experience for a "Y amount of years" more. Although a year consists of 365 days, it is short. Shorter than you can imagine. One day you'll be brewing coffee or attending to your job/daily tasks and one day you'll be catching yourself explaining your life story to a random stranger that is 4x younger than you. "Appreciate the greatest moments as they'll become your greatest memories" - Marie
Jun 24, 2025
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Iāve experienced 5 birthdays for ages ending in zero and none of them marked a big turning point in my life *
What Iāve realized, and other people have agreed with, is that no adult age has felt like I assumed it would be when I was young. 30, 40, 50ā¦ Iām still me. Less hair and more prescriptions, but still me.
Ages will mean as little or as much as you decide they do. If you want turning 30 to mark a change in your life, go for it! Want to forget about it? Itās forgotten. Life doesnāt organize itself by decades or years.
Do takeadvantage of every opportunity you have, though: go places, exercise, meet people, take care of your body. Those kinds of things get more difficult with age.
Also, donāt stop looking for new music.
*well I bought a car when I was 30 and drove it for 20 years, but the timing was just coincidence
Dec 3, 2024
āhow can a person know everything at eighteen, but nothing at twenty-twoā
life truly humbles you. as you start growing older, you stop only chasing the big things, and start valuing the little things too. being able to weave stories of experiences and begin applying themāintegrating the lessons and learning curves.
in the past few hours of being eighteen, ive learnt how limited our time on earth truly is. i was advised (perhaps even lectured) that i shouldnāt try to defy natureās course with futile attempts to āage gracefullyā, but to rather age with mischief, audacity and a good story to tell. beyond grateful for the love that surrounds me, and the love that i am bound to give out.
Dec 22, 2024
I think I'm at the point of the life where I can finally feel grateful for the direction things are going, which is weird because if you asked me four years ago about the current standing of myself and everything, I'd be confused. And I think I have time to thank for my many epiphanies.
Time is scary, and that's what haunts me when I go to sleep. However, it can be a double edged sword. Though I may panic about the goodbyes I'll never properly say, the inevitable truth that I will no longer be a teenage girl and impending adulthood, time has graced me with a few things.
Instead of thinking waking up as a chore, I wake up eager to do things even if it's a mundane chore, to learn about a new obsession, to read, to love, to yearn.
The bonds I've formed, no matter how small or quick they dissappear. I'm lucky to say that I've learned at least one things from people I've formed relationships with, some miniscule compared to others. From these I've accepted to be raw, authentic, and to be present rather than to lose myself in the past or future
The ability to see what I've accomplished rather than what I haven't, to be compassionate to myself above all which I wish was something I had as a young adolescent.
I wish I could go back in time to thirteen year old me, even in a dream, and tell her to accept and live even in the midst of hell being a teenage girl. To take the risks and how even though the end of the fall is far, she'll have something to land on. To reassure that things do end up in her favor and instruct her to do the hardest thing ever: wait.
Jun 8, 2025
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