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Notes From My 20s

by Menna

My 20s have been so much fuller than I could have ever imagined. In the best and at times the worst ways. Most of the time, I feel so overwhelmed trying to figure it all out, and at the same time, in the back of my mind, I know that I'm so unbelievably grateful that I have the agency and the free will to try and fail and get up and try again. So grateful that I have the choice to even try in the first place.Because what that gives you is evidence. Evidence that you're capable of trying and failing and getting up as many times as it takes to get to a place where you're actually satisfied with every. single. aspect. of your life.Your 20s is the time you get to begin designing your life for the first time. Your 20s is also the time you are most vulnerable to building a life that isn't yours.Growing up, we were always taught how to act, speak and even think, and now, for the first time, we have so much more freedom, all at once. And for the first time in hist