Grown Up Talk

britticisms:

My senior year of college, I wrote an essay about how strange it seemed to me that my sister lived for the weekends, practically fetishized Saturday nights. How sad for her, I thought. That will never be me, I thought. Things will be better, more perfect for me, I thought. Last night I thought about deleting it, ashamed of my thought process back then, only two years ago, but I didn’t. Those posts, like the ones about my obsession with a bony clavicle (the remnants of life as a dancer, a gymnast) or that boy I never wanted to admit broke my heart, stay up as a reminder that growth and adulthood are constantly evolving processes. The rewards are minimal; the detriment is significant. But when the rewards arrive, even bits and pieces, the feeling of accomplishment is euphoric, and then blissfully unnerving.

I especially love Britt’s last line to describe the feeling that comes with growing up: “euphoric, and then blissfully unnerving.”

-Amanda, 25, US

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  1. 90years reblogged this from britticisms
  2. thefreestyle reblogged this from edelman8095 and added:
    full post, and read the last line. How perfectly apt:...up is all euphoric,
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  4. cultivatedcabbage reblogged this from britticisms and added:
    look back and am...processes/asshole inclinations/the wrong words spoken.
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  9. edelman8095 reblogged this from britticisms and added:
    especially love Britt’s last line...that comes with growing up: “euphoric,
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