Right now I'm watching Everyday Italian. That Giada sure knows her stuff. Does it mean I'm getting old(er) when I choose to watch HGTV, Food Network, the Cooking Channel or any number of the cake/cupcake shows on TLC? :)
By the way, right now she's making a care package for her niece who's away at college and, man, what I would give for Giada DiLaurentis to put together a care package for ME! Best. Aunt. Ever.
Anyway, on the subject of getting older... It still hasn't sunk in to me that I won't be going back to school in a couple of weeks when my friends do. :(
One of my Facebook friends posted this last night and I felt like I had to share it.
What To Know When You're 25(ish) by Shauna Niequist, taken from Bittersweet. RELEVANT Magazine is "the leading magazine (and site and podcast) covering faith, social injustice, music and culture." Hmm...this magazine might've just gained a new reader!
While, yes, I'm still three days away from turning 22, which doesn't exactly make me 25(ish), I felt that this article applied to the stage my life is in now, or will in the very near future.
The article poses questions and suggestions about things that matter (or should matter) to those millenials making their debut in the working class, such as jobs (duh), relationships and church. Because life doesn't come with an instruction manual, it's easy to get stuck in the wrong place when the time is right to be moving on and first-hand experience is always helpful.
I love that the article brings up church and getting involved. A healthy relationship with Christ is something many people (myself included) take for granted during college -- tabling for times in their lives when they're more mature and have a family. However, that stage of post-grad, but not quite climbing the corporate ladder yet can be very confusing and having a safe place and people like a church family can make the transition easier. (Insert one of my 2011 resolutions which really shouldn't be a "resolution" rather than a lifestyle. More on my resolutions soon!)
The article also gives great advice about how to approach relationships (not that I need this advice right now, blah!) -- stay in one if you know it's right, get out of one if you know it's not. "Some of the most life-shaping decisions you make in this season will be about walking away from good-enough, in search of can’t-live-without," Niequist says.
It also approaches the fact that one should take advantage of opportunities (such as travel) right now, not years from now when things might be less feasible. This piece of advice is one that I should probably heed as well, since I never took advantage of such opportunities in college. I never went to a bowl game; I never went to the river for Spring Break. I always stuck around and worked because I didn't have the money to go, or I stayed at home rather than vacationing so that I would have the money later when I needed it more. The only really fun "trip" I ever took in college occured only a few months ago.
Anyway, this piece deserves a read whether you're 20, 25 or 45 and can be applied to any stage of life! So get to it! Happy reading and have a wonderful, wonderful day!
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