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At 25 I took the roundabout and never wrote about it

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Psychobabble #2*

My 23yearold self. WeHeartIt

My 23yearold self. WeHeartIt

Finally digressed into that phase of which my 23-year-old self would be proud: the uninhibited sloughing-off, the undoing of my quarterlife, starting with the mundane, my multipurpose bag for example. Bought a satchel for replacement today, a good bargain. Detailing out its size, color, look is tedious at 11PM, at work no less. So let’s see where else I’m sloughing through:

* WordPress blogs I follow * prolly my Facebook friends (which is currently at 300+; let’s get real, I only have prolly less than 50 friends in real life, a generous [to me] estimate) * the books I hoard * the lies my current purchasing power allows me to stomach (gagbarflaugh Php___ worth of garbage purchase after) * handouts on hatred, war, cynicism, and defeat (yeah, that came straight from a Sarah Kay poem) * real-life friends * job * the clutter on my work desk * zombie dreams * mediocre plans * naïvete

Those slides on my life’s Keynote that nobody really bothers to stare at, let alone speedread, let alone blink awestricken at meriting a second look. So, yeah, am sloughing off the mundane and hopefully the ones that matter more in the history of sloughing off things because I’m turning 26 soon. 25 is lounging on the cusp and in the chasm. I never liked it here, let me go.

* Psychobabble #1

What hackery is this?

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I also write here and here. The former my neurotic bitch; the latter myself, salvaging my old young journalist who slammed big words getting in the way of clear thought, sloppy writing destroying meaningful juxtaposition of ideas, and misguided intellectualism + neuroses birthing bitches who think writing is another way of whoring.

This is just PMS or QLC: All a myth to me

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Cats have nine lives and none of the crisis.

Quarter-lifers wearing high-fashion yet with the street-smarts — in movies — were my sorority mothers to adulthood. Like, “hey, when I grow up am working for a Miranda Priestly and become a woman of the world.” I was 19 or 20. Not a million existential questions were cramped in my brain yet; but by 23 I’ve decided to ditch the mental self-interrogation as well.

The questions have not stricken back by far, but may be only biding their time in my amygdala, where recent experiences are processed into long-term memories. So I’m expecting them any minute now.

“Epiphanies are hard to come by,” my favorite Bianca Consunji essay once said. I’m expecting but not expecting. So any minute now could mean any minute from now until I die; and I know you’re getting the feeling I’m channeling Gabriel Garcia Marquez on crack but failing, because I really sound like my obnoxious self . . . on crack. It’s because, at 25, I haven’t got a shot at Andy Sach’s life. Worse, I’m writing more stream-of-consciousness posts than ever. High time for the haunting by the existential questions, from which I haven’t heard anything yet. It’s been two minutes.

Must get back to browsing The Sartorialist, Etsy, Anthropologie, the groupons for IKEA imports chance-upon, Thought Catalog, IMDB just in case I play any derivatives of “Six Degrees to Kevin Bacon,” The Oatmeal, etc. All my sorority sisters. Epicurious reads too grown-up for me. The high-fashion pages, too pretentious. 9Gag and Tumblr, too kitschy. At 25, I wonder if I’ve grown so little, now shopping with my own money. But that’s that. I’m not even sure I still want a caramel macchiato in tow as I run pell-mell on a revolving glass door in an NY high-rise, where a caffeine-deprived Miranda Priestly waits for me.