Everything I'm learning in my 20s
Chapter/Episode 1
Hi friends! I recognize the hiatus. February-March: bad, slushy, brain mushy. So when I turned 26 in April, I set one goal for this year: commit to one creative project. One!? My inner child would rather start 500 different projects and abandon them all once I’m bored or sense impending failure.
But I’m grown up now. I’m literally 26.
With that said, welcome to a video series titled Everything I’m learning in my 20s. I’m optimistically hoping to post one of these per week… :) But the real goal is to keep creating even if I hit a lull, and I give this series permission to evolve as needed. You can also find these videos on Instagram (brubbyblurbs) and TikTok (meganbrubby).
Thanks for being here!
Everything I’m learning in my 20s: Episode 1 (pilot)
If you prefer reading….
Everything I’m learning in my 20s: Chapter 1
If I’m being honest, my early 20s were a mess.
That was the opening line of my 26th birthday journal entry.
And I don’t say that to be negative, I say that to be honest. Because two things happened when I entered my 20s: I thought I had it all figured out, quickly followed by the realization that I didn’t even know myself yet. How could I build an adult life when I hadn’t asked myself what I truly wanted?
Well - you do it scared, you have to right? You mess up, you learn, and it’s scary.
It’s scary to move to a new city, and it’s scary to stay put.
It’s scary to walk away from someone that you love, not because you don’t love them anymore, but because you need to learn to love yourself.
It’s scary that for the first time, we don’t know much about what’s ahead.
But we spend our 20s hopeful. Hopeful that one day we’ll wake up, and it will click. We’ll get the job, the ring, the friend group.
But it hasn’t all clicked for me yet, and I’m not quite sure I’m ready for that anyway.
I’ve found quite a lot of magic in the mess - In the people who lifted me up at my lowest, in the rejections that taught me how to love myself, in the mistakes that helped me grow.
It was everything I didn't know yet that brought me back to myself. And if you're asking me, I think that might be the point of the mess anyway. And of course, there’s still a lot that I’m figuring out, but here’s everything I’m learning along the way.