April 8, 2003
And so one day I woke up and I was twenty years old, about to move out of the dorms and into my first apartment amidst boxes of schoolbooks and scrapbooks and journals now nearly a decade old or more. And one day I woke up in the arms of a boy and it was true blue love and thought "How did I get here? When did I get here?" because the waiting is supposed to be over and it seems as though it has just begun.
One day I woke up and I had credit card debt and birth control and essays about french existentialists. And my mom needed me.
One day I woke up and was drinking wine and coffee because I liked it and not because I was trying to look older. I was reading CNN and waiting to hear if my old friend was still alive in Kuwait. I was planning trips to London.
And one day I woke up and I was twenty and I asked myself "Is this where you wanted to be? Is this you? and I disregarded the increasing pounds and the diminishing funds and said
"I am where I always wanted to be."
And all of a sudden twenty seemed so young.
ed note:
twenty is so young. to be a baby again...
4 comments:
Twenty is indeed still young. Yet so much has been learned at this age. Welcome to 20. Hope you enjoy the ride.
thanks darling for your comment. in fact i wrote this 5 years ago, i found it in a diary while i was unpacking.
i thought it was interesting in retrospect.
I know how you feel Lucie, I can't believe the amount of things I've done in the space between 20 and hitting 25. This is a beautiful post.
merci, mlle hila :)
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