I went on my first ever date in early December of 2020, we met on a dating app and hung out in person. I was ultimately very disappointed but it was a good learning experience and I got that life experience over with. I learned a lot about what I don’t want in a person, …
Birthdays, to me, are about reflection. They represent the day you came into the world and each year they mark another year of your life gone. You gain certain privileges because of this one day, and you are expected to magically mature when the clock strikes midnight. For example, I’m currently writing this on my …
When I was in high school I thought that all of the boys around me weren’t worth my time and that I shouldn’t try to date at all. But, like with most things, I thought that would all change in college and everyone told me that it would. All of the women in my life …
Dear Single Women on Valentine’s Day, Don’t be bitter. You’re single and lonely every day of the year so why does it matter today? I love love, I’m not ashamed of it. I love romantic comedies and romances and love stories in general. The cheesier and more cliched the better. It’s very mainstream to hate …
I’ve loved Peter Pan since I was a kid. I believed that one day Peter Pan would come to my window and ask me to fly with him to Neverland. To a place where I never grow up and never come back. The thing is, I was never afraid to grow up. Even now growing …
I keep imagining an alternate world where I’ve run away. I live in an undisclosed small town in some east coast state. I work in a bookshop or even a bakery. I have two or three close friends that I hang out with and talk to all the time. We genuinely care about each other …
At the start of the 2010s, I was 10 years old and at the start of the 2020s, I am 20 years old. I genuinely can’t remember what happened in 2010 so I can’t really reflect back on it. Although I did grow up a lot and have all of my teen years in this …
Reflecting on this past year of being 19 in my last hour and on my last day of being in my teenage years, here are 19 things that I have learned at 19: I push people away when they get too close and that’s not okay. There are some things you can share with others …
Recently, I started going to this book club with my mother. The book club features a group of older, Mormon women with whom I have nothing in common. Our last book was Circe by Madeline Miller. The main topic of conversation was the book’s comments on aging. Circe admires how humans can age and get …
On my last day and in my last hour of being 18, here are 18 things that I have learned being 18: It is okay to enjoy being around other people, you do not always have to be alone. Building and maintaining friendships is just as important as building a relationship with yourself. Your …