12.22.19 // Last Year of my Twenties.

Today, December 22, I move into the last year of my twenties.
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Oh man, 29.
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And while I wanted to do a 29 things I’ve learned from my 29 laps around the sun so far, that post will have to wait.
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In the meantime, I found a poem (thanks to @meg.muirhead and happy -late- birthday to you too!) that almost perfectly captures my feelings as I wrap up a year that was so very challenging and (as I have to remind myself) so very rewarding.
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“it has been one of the greatest and most difficult years of my life. i learned everything is temporary. moments. feelings. people. flowers.
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I learned love is about giving. everything. and letting it hurt. i learned vulnerability is always the right choice because it is easy to be cold in a world that makes it so very difficult to remain soft.
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I learned all things come in twos- life and death. pain and joy. salt and sugar. me and you. it is the balance of the universe.
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it has been the year of hurting so bad but living so good. making friends out of strangers. making strangers out of friends. learning mint chocolate chip ice cream [good conversations with friends, good cries, and good coffee] will fix just about everything.
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and for the pains it can’t there will always be my mother’s arms.
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we must learn to focus on warm energy. always. soak our limbs in it and become better lovers to the world. for if we can’t learn to be kind to each other how will we ever learn to be kind to the most desperate parts of ourselves.”.
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― @rupikaur_, The Sun and Her Flowers

Current Location: San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Feelings: Excited