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Here I am at 20 years old (before digital cameras were very common). In this photo, I was living in Florence, Italy doing a study abroad. I didn’t know how to cook or pay bills. I was scared to do things by myself. Traveling alone was terrifying and I had a boyfriend almost 15 years my senior with nothing going for him. I didn’t really have anything going for me either. I was in community college, but that turned out to be the gateway of who I eventually became.
Two weeks from today I will be 30 and I don’t feel sentimental about my 20s at all. All the things I couldn’t do and was terrified of seems like another lifetime. I can do anything alone, and you name it, I’ve probably done it…alone…more than once. I don’t have any of those “live it up in the last few days of my 20s” feelings either. I am stoked to kiss the most over-rated decade goodbye.
