love!! i'm still the youngest in my team at work, but i've got younger colleagues from the wider team, and it felt like such an adjustment at first! this resonated so much, and so so well written!!
I felt like I was literally inside your brain while I was reading this! It was like being inside your spiral with you in the best way possible. Super engaging and wonderfully written!
Kamilah thank you so much!! It's always very comforting to have some company in my crises and a welcome reminder that everyone feels this way from time to time!
I had the exact same feelings around 22 years old. I suddenly felt too old to do what I used to do in my first college years, I felt jaded, I had lost my innocence. However, now at 35, I can’t help but kind of laugh, because I realise how young I was.Sure I was jaded, and I have not changed a lot since then
( although changing immensely through the milestones of “serious career” and “long term relationship “). I think this point in life that you describe is just the shedding of the young adulthood. It is dangerous to start thinking yourself as old, because you are not. Now is the time take risks and chase change.
Kat thank you so much for your comment! It’s always very comforting to hear that (almost) everyone has been in the same boat, will continue to remind myself that I’m not old (and anyways I think it’s never too late to try something new, I just need to start taking my own advice)
I’m old now but I know this feeling. I was 27 for about five years it seemed like in rooms with much older people and now I’m in my mid thirties and it all just slipped by like sand grains
love!! i'm still the youngest in my team at work, but i've got younger colleagues from the wider team, and it felt like such an adjustment at first! this resonated so much, and so so well written!!
Thank you so much Lucy!! It’s been so nice realising how many people have been on the same boat!
I felt like I was literally inside your brain while I was reading this! It was like being inside your spiral with you in the best way possible. Super engaging and wonderfully written!
Kamilah thank you so much!! It's always very comforting to have some company in my crises and a welcome reminder that everyone feels this way from time to time!
I had the exact same feelings around 22 years old. I suddenly felt too old to do what I used to do in my first college years, I felt jaded, I had lost my innocence. However, now at 35, I can’t help but kind of laugh, because I realise how young I was.Sure I was jaded, and I have not changed a lot since then
( although changing immensely through the milestones of “serious career” and “long term relationship “). I think this point in life that you describe is just the shedding of the young adulthood. It is dangerous to start thinking yourself as old, because you are not. Now is the time take risks and chase change.
Kat thank you so much for your comment! It’s always very comforting to hear that (almost) everyone has been in the same boat, will continue to remind myself that I’m not old (and anyways I think it’s never too late to try something new, I just need to start taking my own advice)
I’m old now but I know this feeling. I was 27 for about five years it seemed like in rooms with much older people and now I’m in my mid thirties and it all just slipped by like sand grains
So glad to hear that other people relate!! It sounds silly but I’ve gotten so used to it and I’m low key panicking at the thought of ageing
Uptown Girls is the best movie ever made
Anti-grownup propaganda and I’m so here for it
Interesting strategy, but I'm sure it's a guaranteed way to have the most interesting besties in the room!