Kiss today goodbye, and point me toward tomorrow
I am TWENTY years old.
Twenty.
Ten years ago I was in fifth grade, lived in Rochester, and my dad threw me a party where a limousine picked up all of my friends and me and drove us to both grandmas' houses, then to the children's museum in Flint, then dinner...
In the past 10 years I have graduated elementary, middle, and high school; sung in front of crowds of people; learned to drive; lost someone I love; travelled to Germany, Brazil and Hawaii (and a zillion other states); lost some friends; made a bunch of new friends; been an overacheiver; gotten wiser; gotten bolder; gotten a hell of a lot stronger; fallen in love; gone on a couple road trips; learned a lot of things about myself; learned that I still have a lot to learn.
Ten years from now, I will be thirty.
I will have graduated college, but after that, who knows what? I have no idea what I will have done academically or professionally...
But tonight, in the fifteen minutes before midnight, I made a list of things I want to do before I turn 30. Not things like graduate, get a job, get married... but things to add to the resume of life. Experiences, memories to make before I move into the next decade of my life.
Wherever I'll be in 10 years, 5 years, even next week, whatever I'm doing, I'll be doing with purpose. I will live in the moment and look toward the future.
Dream with intention. Love with intention. Live with intention.
Twenty.
Ten years ago I was in fifth grade, lived in Rochester, and my dad threw me a party where a limousine picked up all of my friends and me and drove us to both grandmas' houses, then to the children's museum in Flint, then dinner...
In the past 10 years I have graduated elementary, middle, and high school; sung in front of crowds of people; learned to drive; lost someone I love; travelled to Germany, Brazil and Hawaii (and a zillion other states); lost some friends; made a bunch of new friends; been an overacheiver; gotten wiser; gotten bolder; gotten a hell of a lot stronger; fallen in love; gone on a couple road trips; learned a lot of things about myself; learned that I still have a lot to learn.
Ten years from now, I will be thirty.
I will have graduated college, but after that, who knows what? I have no idea what I will have done academically or professionally...
But tonight, in the fifteen minutes before midnight, I made a list of things I want to do before I turn 30. Not things like graduate, get a job, get married... but things to add to the resume of life. Experiences, memories to make before I move into the next decade of my life.
Wherever I'll be in 10 years, 5 years, even next week, whatever I'm doing, I'll be doing with purpose. I will live in the moment and look toward the future.
Dream with intention. Love with intention. Live with intention.