Literal Trinket #1

10/27/12 10:30 am

I wake up Saturday morning to an empty wine bottle sitting on my kitchen counter. I bet twenty-somethings everywhere have experienced the exact same thing today. We are a cult-us twenty-something girls. There is something very New York City downtown vibish about hanging out with wine in hand on Friday after work. For me its champagne, but that’s just me and my love for carbonation. And what is the vibe that champagne brings about? Luxury? Upper East Side? LA? High-class mistress? Penthouse resident? Well the champagne that I drink is cheaper than wine, but it’s still bubbly and pretty in my glass. The point is, I very much enjoy this point in my life. You go to a weekly beer tasting, you make dinner with your boyfriend or friends, you go to bars in a calmer corner of town- in fact everything is just calmer. How do we suddenly evolve into this era of our lives? When I look back I guess I’ve been in the same post-college stage for a while, but I’m finally comfortable in it. That’s the difference. I finally embraced being an adult, I guess. Aging has been good for me. I’m still not quite satisfied with being ordinary; not making any mark on the world. A voice in my head still says, “Your chance will come. One day all your creative thoughts will make sense in a masterpiece of some sort.”  But I’m now, at the age of 26,  much more okay with being an ordinary being most of the time.