Just a Little Squinkling

I'm a 20-something waiting for that moment when I finally feel like an adult. I'm lucky enough to have already found the Place Where I Belong. But I'm still blundering around trying to find the Thing That I'm Meant To Do.

This is mostly a collection of things that I've come across out there in the internet world that I found interesting or intriguing or worth talking about. I wanted somewhere I could keep all the images / videos / quotes / ideas that I loved and to pass them on so that others might love them too. If anyone's looking, I hope you find some things on here that spark your interest!

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Notes No Great Illusion: Quarter Life Or Something Like It

nogreatillusion:

When you are younger, you imagine your life at twenty five with the sort of careless hopefulness one projects upon the distant future. You imagine that you will be rich. That you will be loved. That you will be thin, and poised, and successful, and your hair will finally swing like a Pantene commercial. You do not imagine that you will still be leaving your clothes on the floor. You do not imagine paying for renter’s insurance, or sobbing in the bathroom at work, or scrubbing your own refrigerator. You could not have imagined it.

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Whatever it is I have or haven’t become, I am still the same emotional girl I have always been. All of our insecurities, the crowded hopes and embarrassments and slights never leave us. We don’t even become better at hiding them. The difference is that now I know it. And when, at twenty five, I find myself anxious and insecure, I will put on my black blazer, the one with the silver name tag, and say with more patience than confidence, “Alright then. What’s next?”