turning 25 and thoughts on birthdays

I turned 25 last Tuesday, which I think means I’m supposed to have a quarter-life crisis?

Excuse me while I go add that to my to-do list, a list that doesn’t even exist judging by the amount of things I’ve forgotten to do in the last few weeks and months.

I don’t have a lot of thoughts about turning 25 and becoming a year older, perhaps because I’ve spent the last year knowing that come September, my age will increase by one, as it has every September since I was born.

The one thing that I have recognized this year, though, is that I am not much for birthdays. I enjoy other people’s birthdays, and I want to celebrate their day in any way they like, but when it comes to myself I am generally less than enthused. As much as I like being the center of attention in all other circumstances, my birthday does nothing for me.

None of that stopped me from organizing a night out with my friends, however. I collected my various friend groups together on Friday night and forced them all to meet and interact and become friends with one another, so now when I am talking to one person and mention another person, they all know who I am talking to. And as I looked around at the dozen or so people who were able to attend, I couldn’t help but be humbled by the amazing people I have collected in the 2 years since I’ve lived in Atlanta.

Two years is not a very long time, and when I think about what I was doing two years ago I am amazed by how quickly the time has passed. But still, in two short years I have amassed a fantastic group of people who consider me a friend, enough of a friend to drive out of their way and subject themselves to a Friday night at Dave & Buster’s. Even though I sometimes don’t think of Atlanta as “home”, I do feel at home with those people, and I feel lucky for that.

So if that’s what my birthday is about, collecting all my friends in one spot and forcing them to hang out with me, then I suppose I do like my birthday after all. I should have more of them.

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Jenn / @jenniferalaine

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Jenn is a northern transplant currently living and exploring in Atlanta, Georgia. She keeps herself entertained with weekly trivia nights, a kickball league, and cozying up to her DVR full of crime dramas. A blogger for over four years now, she’s not sure how she would communicate if she couldn’t share her life stories with strangers on the internet. Jenn graduated from Tufts University with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science. She currently works in marketing for a construction management firm in Atlanta, Georgia.

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