bot jane austen

……it’s supposed to be fun turning 21 time wont fly its like im paralyzed by it i’d like to be my old self again but i’m still trying to find it……… it’s like i can feel time moving how can a person know everything at 18 and nothing at 22? and will you still want me when i’m nothing new?…….. “there’s this thing they say about celebrities, that they’re frozen at the age they got famous and that’s kinda what happened to me i had a lot of growing up to do at 29”…….. did you hear about the girl who got frozen? time went on for everybody else she won’t know it she’s still 23 inside her fantasy

The truth is, sometimes you will hurt people. Sometimes, you will hurt people, and then life will move on, and you won’t have any way to apologize, or make up for it. But, your past mistakes do not define who you are now. You are allowed to move on without guilt haunting you over things you might have done years ago. You are allowed to come to terms with the things you did that were wrong, to change, and to grow from those experiences; you will never be stuck in one spot if you will yourself to own up to it, pull yourself up, and start again.

The way 22 year old Taylor wrote “will you still want me when I’m nothing new” and now 9 years laters the entire world has created a humongous cultural moment around her rereleasing an album that for the most part is not “new” and she is at the height of her power. The epitome of it gets better.

ur early 20s are about being obsessed with kindness and mary oliver and seasonal fruits and recreating comfort foods you ate as a child and learning how to love and crying because you have no choice but to live the life before you and finding god on the bus back from the grocery store

why don’t you read a poem about the sunrise written 5 centuries ago and contemplate the fact that we have been writing about the same sun for centuries upon centuries and then maybe you’ll calm down