"When you're twenty-five-ish, you're old enough to know what kind of music you love, regardless of what your last boyfriend or roommate always used to play. You know how to walk in heels, how to tie a necktie, how to give a good toast at a wedding, and how to make something for dinner. You don't have to think much about skin care, home ownership, or your retirement plan. Your life can look a lot of different ways when you're twenty-five; single, dating, engaged, married. You are working in dream jobs, pay-the-bill jobs, and downright horrible jobs. You are young enough to believe that anything is possible , and you are old enough to make that belief a reality." -Shauna Niequist
The first time I read Bittersweet I was twenty-two. Here I am three years later still going back to the book when I need encouragement of words to feed my soul. This chapter has always been my favorite, reading it at twenty-two I felt like she was speaking to the part of my soul that had no clue what I wanted out of life. She was affirming that feeling and making me feel like it was okay to be lost and confused and to be wandering through life just hoping that a door would open and it would all make sense. Allowing myself to feel that and sit in that season with no clue what was coming is what got me to where I am one day into my twenty fifth year. Reading this chapter again it is amazing how differently it resonates with my heart for where I am at. I feel like I have stepped away from my early twenties unsure of what I wanted and stepped into this way of thought that I can accomplish anything I set my mind to as I take those steps towards the accomplishment of my goals.
So here's to twenty-five, a new way of life and the words written by one of the most inspiring women reminding us that it's okay to wander for a while as we figure our twenties out.
"Don't be like that. Don't get stuck. Move, travel, take a class, take a risk. Walk away, try something new. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don't lose yourself at happy hour, but don't lose yourself on the corporate ladder either. Stop every once in a while and go out to coffee or climb in bed with your journal. Ask yourself some good questions like, Am I proud of the life I'm living? What have I tried this month? What have I learned about God this year?........Every year, you will trade a little of your perfect skin and your ability to look great without exercising for wisdom and peace and groundedness, and every year the trade will be worth it."
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