When it's raining out, and the world is a little gloomier than it should be, the past can be a nice place to hang out, and so, this post is just a list of random things I put together a while back, as I crossed that dreaded quarter-life mark, and it wasn't as terrible as I thought it would be.. Things that almost make being an adult worth it! :)
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1. Money- however little/ much it is, or how generous my parents were and are, nothing beats earning my own!
2. Understanding my own needs- The clarity that comes from having tasted several flavors (icecream/ people/ emotions/ professions), and knowing which one I prefer.
3. Dark chocolate- Find me the child that favors dark chocolate over milk chocolate and caramel, and I will show you a person with truly evolved taste.
4. Walking away from unpleasantness, no longer forced to be a victim of someone else's bad behavior.
5. The self-righteousness that comes from having behaved well when the other person behaved badly ;)- (No childish heel-kicking tantrum comes close!
6. Late night drives with the windows down and the moon-roof open. And my choice of music, because I'm the only one in the car.
7. Self-discovery- The depths of teenage angst are fantastic, but they don't come close to the thrill of discovering something new about myself, however tiny the realization.
8. No fixed bedtimes !! I can blog when I like and sleep when I choose.
9. COFFEE- Why, why are small children denied this wonderful pleasure?
10. Cellphones.
11. Any phone, just for me!
12. Roadtripping with friends, and my favorite allies ;)
13. No-one stopping me from eating all the ice-cream, straight out of the carton.
14. Having an icecream container to myself, rum-raisin flavored !
15. The look on my dad's face when I drive my own car:)
16. Knowing there can be two rights and no wrong- Knowing that I know this slaps growing-up in my face harder than most other things, yet its a good feeling.
17. Making sense of books I first read when I was too young to understand them.
18. Laughing at silly 22-year old kids, with others as wise and mature as myself :)
19. Not ALWAYS fighting with my brother. Most of the time is not the same as always,
no matter what it looks like to my parents.
20. OLD friends. The kind who understand both where I'm coming from and where I'm headed to- and won't hesitate to tell me if its a blind alley I will bash my non-existent brains into.
21. Realising that age really is just a number. Most days I'm too busy to even remember which side of 25 I'm on!
22. Ranting, as opposed to throwing a tantrum. Knowing when to rant, when to stand and fight, and when to just ignore idiocy. (Atleast some of the time!).
23. Work- Enjoying what I do, and having the freedom to procrastinate when I like!
24. The option of utter and complete laziness- To lie on the couch with a book all day, munching junk food and tuning out every other demand on my time.
25. No homework!
26. Enjoying being a geek- at long last I have a cooler life than the gossipy popular girls who now crib about tending babies!
27. Taking off from work to blog- Not something I'd have managed in school ;)
