I'm turning 25 in a month. I realize this is not old and it is an age that should be celebrated, but I am having a hard time with it. How in the world am I already 25? I love where I am in life and I am happy to be here, but it still feels really old to me. I don't feel like it is old for other people, just me. It's such an adult age! I totally feel like a grown adult. I have a mortgage, bills, a grown up job, and responsibilities, but then I feel like I am a kid too. Didn't I just go to the Prom (um, like 7 years ago, yikes). Didn't I just graduate college (how has it been 2 years almost!) I just do not like how fast time is going. It stresses me out when I think about it. Thomas and I will celebrate 2 years of marriage in June! How can that be already! It feels like we just were married, but yet I feel like I have been married forever. It is great and weird age to be. It's a little like a limbo age. You are adult, but you also feel like a teenager in some ways. That is until you hang around with a teenager and then you realize how far you have come from that. When I looked at people that were 25 when I was younger, I felt like they were really adult and serious. Now I look at people who are 30 in that way. I guess that is the trick of life. You never really feel as old as you are! My mom says that she feels like high school, marriage, babies, and all of that was just yesterday! I am just savoring every moment and remembering that the people who I think have it all together may be feeling the same way as me. So this is me having a quarter-life crisis. I am happy yet scared at how fast time feels like it is going! Slow down!!!! Please!
However, the funny part of this story is what set this off. I was getting ready this morning and I realized I have neck wrinkles. Say what? I am way to young to have the beginnings of a turkey neck! I immediately made Thomas come over so I could analyze his neck. No wrinkles. What is this crap? He has beautiful thick perfectly colored hair and he could use Suave every day of his life with no issue and now he is the one with no wrinkles! That boy has some amazing genes! I love his so, but gosh! NOT FAIR! He poked fun at me and told me I was old, but seriously I am feeling it today. I have secretly been looking at everyone's necks trying to decide if this is normal or if I am a wrinkly mess. What does this mean for 10 years from now! I must buy wrinkle creams immediately! And for your daily laugh, here are some pictures. I have no shame. I also would like to comment that my face and neck are not that differently colored in real life. The iphone is playing tricks on the coloring.
Oh my goodness please do not let me get a turkey neck!
I know how you feel! Your age never feels like the right age. I'm 21 and will be graduating with a Master's in a year... at times I feel like I'm so behind and that I'm not growing up into an adult like everyone else...and then other times I feel like I'm moving way too fast! It's so hard to find a good balance.
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