Music, love and sun

Found this on Pinterest and thought I would share because so much of it is true. I haven’t reached my late 20’s yet but I can already tell which category my friends or former friends will fall into. What are you doing with your life? Which category will you find yourself in? 

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This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can see very clearly two kinds of people.

On one side, people who have used their 20s to learn and grow, to find … themselves and their dreams, people who know what works and what doesn’t, who have pushed through to become real live adults.

Then there’s the other kind, who are hanging onto college, or high school even, with all their might. They’ve stayed in jobs they hate, because they’re too scared to get another one. They’ve stayed with men or women who are good but not great, because they don’t want to be lonely. … they mean to develop intimate friendships, they mean to stop drinking like life is one big frat party.

But they don’t do those things, so they live in an extended adolescence, no closer to adulthood than when they graduated.

Don’t be like that.

Don’t get stuck.

Move, travel, take a class, take a risk.

There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming.

Don’t lose yourself at happy hour, but don’t lose yourself on the corporate ladder either.

Stop every once in a while and go out to coffee or climb in bed with your journal.

Ask yourself some good questions like: “Am I proud of the life I’m living? What have I tried this month? … Do the people I’m spending time with give me life, or make me feel small? Is there any brokenness in my life that’s keeping me from moving forward?”

Now is your time.

Walk closely with people you love, and with people who believe … life is a grand adventure.

Don’t get stuck in the past, and don’t try to fast-forward yourself into a future you haven’t yet earned.

Give today all the love and intensity and courage you can, and keep traveling honestly along life’s path.

True story

Being caught in my last semester of college has been a constant struggle to grasp that there’s more to life than Las Cruces. As each semester has passed I’ve faced new challenges and it seems like my next challenge will be my toughest yet. I’m freaking out. This whole coming of age thing is completely overwhelming and right now, in this moment, I don’t feel like I’m ready. 

I’ve lived my life in the comfort of being familiar. I’ve been surrounded with people who have had my best interest at heart. I’ve been surrounded by the same friends for years, friends who have put up with all my ups and downs, friends who I’ve shared some of the most intimate moments with. But what happens when I leave? 

I’ve worked so hard over the past four years to establish myself and find myself and now that it’s time to spread my wings and make it on my own, I’m scared shitless. It just doesn’t seem real. I’ve been talking about leaving Las Cruces since I moved here in third grade. I’ve never been satisfied with the idea of staying in the Mesilla Valley, hell I’ve never been satisfied with staying in New Mexico. Leaving this desert town has always been a dream but I know once I walk across that stage in December it’s going to be so much more than just a dream. I may be making my start in Albuquerque but I know I won’t be there for long and I know once my time in Albuquerque is finished so is my life in New Mexico. It’s just a good, crazy, overwhelming, insanely scary feeling when your dreams become reality and growing up is no longer just something you talk about doing but something that is staring you right in the face screaming “it’s time.”

Truth.