Every once in a while - okay .. fuck it, for me it's been often - a person goes through some life changes. A little over a year ago (April 1, 2010, to be precise), I returned to Minneapolis from Sioux Falls. Now, shortly after the one-year anniversary of my return, I've celebrated another anniversary.
May 29, 2011 was my one-year anniversary with Jeremy. Plus, I'm now three weeks into my new job as a Customer Contact Professional with a Financial Services company.
It's weird how quickly things turn around. A month ago I was barely scraping by, now I don't have to worry about money again. I'm loving the job and things are going great. Soon Jeremy and I will be moving in together. All these positive changes have made me reflect on the last four years of my life.
2007 started off with a bang and I was fabulous. Then I moved and things were still fabulous, but I moved without a real savings so in 2008 I ended up fucking myself pretty hardcore. Three years of hardship have taught me ... save, save save!!! Also, I feel like I am so much more grown up now. I never understood that I had to go through all that. I mean, yes I was bad with money and spent like it was going out of style, but from the ages of 18-30 I had plenty of personal money, always paid my rent on time, helped friends, and always had good jobs. I guess I never went through that phase of not having all that in my early twenties like most people do, so when this hit me really hard at 30/31, I had no real clue how to deal with it.
Now, at almost 33, I feel like know enough to avoid it in the future.
This just goes to prove my theory, at least in the personal aspect, that the 20's are merely a "legally adult extension" of our teens. I mean, let's face it, we don't learn how to be adults in our teens. We learn how to be adults in our twenties.
Who knows ...?
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