We are leaving for Portugal in a week! And thought I’d share my
thoughts on the ‘airport moment’ and life as a twenty something – I wrote this
a few years ago and I can tell you that
1) Hindsight is 20/20
2) Everything
did turn out alright
3) they were definitely the good old days but these days are
pretty darn awesome too :)
Why Life as a 20 Something is Awesome
I love taking pictures at the airport right before a vacation
because I know that when I look back at my vacation pictures, that’s the
picture I’ll want to relive most.
And heres why.
The
endless preparation is behind me. No more hotel reviews to read, the search for
the cheapest, fastest flight is over and my bags are packed and checked in.
I’ve crossed off all the items on my to-pack list, I’m done with the frantic
last minute shopping runs. And perhaps the most dreaded of all: my bags are
under the luggage weight limit!
And
while I’m no fan of sitting in an uncomfortable chair for hours on end, I know
that at the other end of that flight lies a great adventure. That is what is so special about the airport moment: anything
is possible beyond
it. But so often we focus on the check in lines, the security lines, the
washroom lines, the crowds of people and the overpriced airport food that we
forget about the exciting journey we’re about to embark on.
Being
a twenty something is a lot like that airport moment.
We’ve put ourselves through years and years of school, went to
saturday morning heritage classes and took some form of extracurricular
activity to become a well rounded person.
And while most of us are still unsure of where life our lives
are headed, we have a vague idea of what we want and know that the road to
wherever that is will be filled with lots of laughs and tears. Sometimes more
of the latter than the former.
But that’s ok because if airport moments and vacations are
anything to go by, I know that at the end of this vacation we call life, the
memories I’ll most want to relive are these. Because it encompasses all the
work we put in to get here and the anticipation of all the possibilities that
lie ahead.
We’ll
look back at these 20 something years and wonder why we worried so much.
Because everything turned out alright. Because the decisions we made were the
right ones. Because we ended up with the right people. And because these really were
the good
old days.
