Miss 20 Something

Thank God for them 20 somethings. As a young woman being 24, I can honestly say these few years have been quite the experience. They say with your 20’s that you should be selfish. Your able to fully immerse yourself in life by doing anything possible. That is travel the world, experience love, explore, and be selfish with your time. Your learning about yourself most during your 20’s. So I believe it is an important crucial period that a person is willing to involve themselves with themselves fully, before being in the company or relationship with others. If we’re not able to identify ourselves, and we start to deal with a person who knows who they are, we tend to dismiss who they are at times because we don’t who and what we are. What a person values you may not have the same value. What bothers one person sometimes won’t bother the next. However, possessing the quality of transparency allows for us to try to meet a person halfway. Transparency is a quality I’ve learned in my 20’s and it in fact is very important to me. Use your 20’s to be open for change, transparency, love, no love, lessons, trial and error, and happiness. Your 20’s help make you strong for life, it is the time to experience true adult growth pains. As my sister told me for the first time in 2017 when I was living with her in the summer, she asked, “Wanae have you ever heard of the term GRIT?” I’m sitting in silence and then I reply, “no.” My sister then proceeded to tell me to look up the term. She wanted me to look up the definition due to some of my conversations I had with her about some difficulties I may have been experiencing in life. I was both surprised and humbled to learn that GRIT means, “courage and resolve; the strength of character.” She would say that although I may experience things in life that may cause obstacles, how I handle them and true humbleness shows true GRIT.