Sound Bites

I don’t care what anyone says, all women go through a major change once they hit 25. It’s as if we’re all just floating along, enjoying life, and BAM. 25 smacks you out of nowhere. You’re going to be thirty in five years. Party’s over.

You start thinking about all the things in life that you haven't done yet. You still haven't traveled to Brazil... or published that book...

You start analyzing the person you're in a relationship with and wondering why you’re wasting your time with them.

You start analyzing your job. You don’t love it. You don’t even like it.

Every second that passes from that point on feels like a giant waste of life.

Okay, maybe this doesn’t happen to everyone, but it definitely happened to me. I suddenly realized that the dreaded 30 was slowly creeping around the corner and I was facing a few problems, those being:

- I did not want to spend the rest of my life with the person I was in a relationship with.

- I had no idea how to tell the person I was in a relationship with that I did not want to spend the rest of my life with him.

- I did not want to spend the rest of my life at my dead-end job.

- I had no idea how to tell my boss that I did not want to spend the rest of my life at my dead- end job.

- I wanted to travel. And by “travel” I don’t mean “two weeks of approved vacation” per year.

So, first things first. I dumped my boyfriend and moved out. And then he got a new girlfriend. And then I did the whole “I’m sad he’s with someone else and want him back” mourning grievance for about a week. And then I was over it.

Then, by some miraculous grace of God, I didn’t even have to quit my job. I got laid off. Unemployment = amazing.

So I went back to school full time, landed a few freelance gigs for music magazines, wrote two novels, got signed by a lit agent, saw half of the US, and plan on doing a semester in Europe within the next year or so.

Remember, life is what you make of it. So get off your ass and go do it.