Blogmas Day 5: My birthday - what I learnt at 21
It was my twenty-second birthday yesterday. I'm 22. So much has happened this past year of being 21. I was living away from home in a student accommodation, absolutely miserable at uni but determined that being a nurse was my future as I came in my 21st year. It's been such a valuable life lesson -the whole year of being 21, so I wanted to talk about some of the things I've learnt/experienced being in my early twenties. Without being too sentimental because I need to keep that for my end of year posts. So being 21, it's a horrible age because you really are setting up your foundations for "who you want to be when you grow up", it feels like when you're 19 you can still be experimenting with what you like and don't like, you can party and be irresponsible and live off your parents and be a lot more chill. Your early twenties seem more rushed in the sense that there is added pressure to take up more responsibilities. It's okay to not know what you...