Hello 25! (Photo by Shaina Machlus)
ONE OF THE REASONS why I’m always geeking out over the blogosphere is because there is such amazing potential for community within it—it’s like a great big amorphous blob of sisterhood just waiting to be claimed and shaped. And in large part, that’s why we started The Sister Project as a blog network. What better way to explore sisterhood than through a medium that inherently fosters community? Lately, I’ve been most excited about an internet project started by 22-year-old blogger Cassie Boorn in which she asks older female bloggers what they would say to their younger, 20-something-year-old selves. Here’s the scoop:
In an interview with NPR’s Cassie says “she decided to do this post because as a blogger she has traveled to a lot of conferences and met ‘a lot of really great women.’” She decided to pick these women’s brains for the kind of honest, useful (and retrospective) advice that a 22-year-old single mom like herself could use. And lots of fantastic female bloggers responded. They wrote their advice in the form of letters to their younger selves.
One of my favorite bits of advice / comfort is from Sarah Brown of the blog Que Sera Sera. She writes:
“First of all, let’s get this out of the way: no, you are not crazy. Yes, you should probably talk to someone. There’s no shame in that. You should also go outside more.”
You can read all the letters on Cassie’s blog. And even contribute your own. I feel like all this is especially pertinent to me right now as I’ve just skidded past my 25th birthday (eeps!). And I feel a bit like I’m at a pit stop between 20 and 30, trying to peer at every horizon. I keep asking myself, What have you learned in the past five years? (hopefully something) and What will you learn in the next five? (again, hopefully something).
So here goes: what would you write to your 20-something self?
Links:
NPR interview with Cassie Boorn
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Thank you so much!!!
dear deborah, of 20 years, stop apologizing for who you are, because your life is a true gift to you and the world.
Ooh, now this is something to think about!