My last post as a 21 year old! Woo.
...and since I took a long time / procrastinated before I actually sat down to write this post, I suppose it's my first one as a 22 year old!
I'm tired so I'll be brief. This past year was filled with many an incredible and unexpected thing happening to me that I definitely could not have foreseen.
I discovered I can write longform fiction. I started honing my digital illustration techniques and finally got excited about making things again.
I took up a little bit of fencing, and found out that I quite like running. On a whim, I plunged into learning Italian and got excited about languages again. I started to volunteer at a hospital. I did not die in a car crash, though I did total a car. I started to drive to school rather than stay in a dorm, so as not to be afraid of roads. As expected, I graduated from Uni, but I did not expect my future unravel into uncertainty as it did in the last few months. I also didn't expect to speak at graduation and have it be received so well. Despite not having the satisfaction of knowing where my graduate school destination will be, I think it will make me a more disciplined and decisive person as I own up to steering my own existence.
I read incredible books from authors I never knew I'd love so much who've woven wonders of which I would never have dreamed. I made new friends who were so fantastic they showed me how clouded and toxic older friendships were simply by being themselves. I met mentors who graced me with kindness I'd been missing for years. I felt minor stings of betrayal and let them wash away as quickly as they came. I learned to let go of some things and found that the minute I let go was the minute the issues resolved themselves; similarly, I made deliberate decisions to be indulgent; by gratifying desires, I learned that they didn't have the power I thought they held, or perhaps realized that they weren't as important as they were when they were temptations.
On a more recent note, I didn't expect to leave age 21 employed! But, again, tiredness takes hold -- to bed with me! Tomorrow is an exciting World Cup Final, and ~FREE SLURPEE DAY~ :)
I'm tired so I'll be brief. This past year was filled with many an incredible and unexpected thing happening to me that I definitely could not have foreseen.
I discovered I can write longform fiction. I started honing my digital illustration techniques and finally got excited about making things again.
I took up a little bit of fencing, and found out that I quite like running. On a whim, I plunged into learning Italian and got excited about languages again. I started to volunteer at a hospital. I did not die in a car crash, though I did total a car. I started to drive to school rather than stay in a dorm, so as not to be afraid of roads. As expected, I graduated from Uni, but I did not expect my future unravel into uncertainty as it did in the last few months. I also didn't expect to speak at graduation and have it be received so well. Despite not having the satisfaction of knowing where my graduate school destination will be, I think it will make me a more disciplined and decisive person as I own up to steering my own existence.
I read incredible books from authors I never knew I'd love so much who've woven wonders of which I would never have dreamed. I made new friends who were so fantastic they showed me how clouded and toxic older friendships were simply by being themselves. I met mentors who graced me with kindness I'd been missing for years. I felt minor stings of betrayal and let them wash away as quickly as they came. I learned to let go of some things and found that the minute I let go was the minute the issues resolved themselves; similarly, I made deliberate decisions to be indulgent; by gratifying desires, I learned that they didn't have the power I thought they held, or perhaps realized that they weren't as important as they were when they were temptations.
On a more recent note, I didn't expect to leave age 21 employed! But, again, tiredness takes hold -- to bed with me! Tomorrow is an exciting World Cup Final, and ~FREE SLURPEE DAY~ :)