Turning Twenty-Four

Turning twenty-four has been a sort of turning point in my life.

Turning twenty-four made my age fall under the "mid-twenties" group. It's really "shocking, unbelievable, stunning."

Turning twenty-four somehow made me think about my life. I have thought about the things I have done, the things I want to do, the things I have missed. It shocked me that I felt as if nothing really significant happened to my life for the past two years -- it felt as if I just suddenly turned twenty-four from just being 21 or 22.



This photo above was taken during the celebration of my boyfriend's birthday last November 2007. Twenty-four. I was teasing him then that he was already old. That was just a joke, a kind of pangungulit at paglalambing. It didn't occur to me that when I'm the one to turn 24, that feeling of "tumatanda na" would be, well, striking. I'm not so young anymore. Still young, but not that young.

Still, turning twenty-four also made me celebrate life. (See the celebration above? Yebah!) Sure, there's this quarter-life crisis (I'm beginning to feel it). But it made me really enjoy life. Growing up, not just growing old, is quite exciting.

Oh, I'm still young! :)