Every year, around my birthday, I come up with a list of things I learned throughout the previous year of my life. I’m a few weeks behind this year! Nonetheless, in no particular order, here’s 27 things I’ve learned at 27.
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Sports break down barriers. How many times have you heard that?
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It’s no secret that time flies but when I got a letter on my door the other day that it was time to renew my lease, I did a double take. I am about to hit my one-year mark in Nashville. And that blows my mind.
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One day, you’re 18.
You’re in a new place,
you feel lost
because you’re a number inside of thousands,
a face almost no one knows.
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I think it’s funny how sometimes, when it feels like your world is breaking, the best things are revealed. The best things, standing right next to the hard things. The best things, evident because the hard things happened. Three weeks ago, something in my world broke. Or rather, I discovered something in my world is broken.
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Happy birthday, Dad. I wouldn’t be the writer or the person I am without you, and I'm thankful every single day to have you in my corner. You are an unmatched girl dad. I love you.
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I’ve put off writing this because for a while, I didn’t know how to.
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It’s that time of year again! I turn 26 this weekend (and I feel old), so it’s time for my yearly list. In no particular order, here’s 26 things I’ve learned at 26.
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Right now, I am working on something I love. But it took me about five abandoned drafts and a lot of frustration in the past few months to be able to say that.
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I’ve learned through the years that gratefulness and joy can coexist with tension and tough stuff. Perspective matters more, in my opinion, than how much you or I understand.
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I needed this reminder.
I’m writing this to myself, just as much as I am to you.
Somewhere is coming. But here is here. And here is valid.
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It was a familiar scene, and a familiar occurrence. Crying while saying goodbye and getting lost in my thoughts on a flight. Two things that I think most humans might be prone to doing. But as a writer, particularly when I find myself in the second scenario, this corner of the web is where you’ll likely find me after.
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I’ve sat down to write this every day this week. And every day, I’ve trashed the document I was working on. But no matter how many drafts sit on my laptop, one sentence has always come back.
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It seems to be a pretty consistent theme in my life. Whenever I’m staring down a larger change or transition, one sentence seems to haunt me. No matter where I find myself on my journey of living with cerebral palsy (CP). I could be at the height of my acceptance of it, finding joy in the ups and the downs of it (like I honestly feel like I am now), my confidence and comfort with it at their highest, and this sentence will likely still pop up in the back of my mind.
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Maybe I’m clinging to clichés. It’s possible that the past few years of my life have just been way harder than I thought they would be, so I’ve now turned to an almost blissful mindset that an upswing has to arrive eventually. And it could be all wrong. Or it could at least be partly right. Either way, I know I’m standing at the end of this as one thing: hopeful.
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It hit me the other day that it has been one year since I sent my first query (pitch) to a literary agent for my novel. Given I didn’t know much about the book publishing industry before I started all of this…
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Searching for answer and being told no.
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25 things I’ve learned at 25
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