The 5 Things I wish I knew before I turned 25

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I turned 25 this weekend. 

If we’re being honest here, this is going to be a long written post, with out any blog cheating photos. You know what I’m talking about, the blog posts that are 95% photos because a photo is worth a 1000 words. My Media Professors might agree with that, but certainly not my English professors. So here it is, here at the 5 things I wish I knew before I turned 25. I’m a quarter of a century old, and it feels like it’s a time for reflection.

1. You’re going to lose a lot of friends, and that’s okay. It’s not a big deal anymore to lose friends. You’re going to start seeing it as removing things from a back pack and making the load on your back lighter. You’re only packing essentials now, and it feels so much better. You’re going to look around the table at your birthday on your 25th birthday and smile. Everyone there (minus a few who were working, sick, across the country, or across the world), makes you smile. They love you, and even after knowing some since the third grade, from high school, your brief experience at church, university, or through beloved friends they love you too. You’ve curated the best friendships you could find in 25 years.
2. You’re going to switch your major and be okay with it. After first year university, you switch out of Life Sciences because it sucked for you. You barely passed that first year but you will eventually you aren’t going to become a vet. Instead, you’re going to take a year to boost your mark and take some super fun courses like Theatre Production (you’re going to learn how to operate a light board!), and a lot of environmental sciences. You’ll go into a major of media studies that leads you to study fashion marketing. Remember when we always wanted to work in fashion? You go for it.
3. You Meet Jessica. You meet Jessica in one of your environmental classes, and she quickly takes you under her wing. You end up in an after school mental health seminar together and she tells you that as a fifth year student she only now learned to enjoy university. She tells you to join things, and to get involved or you will always hate university. She was right. You end up in multiple Work Study positions, and join multiple clubs. as an exec, you bad ass.
4. You go to Taipei, Taiwan. You go to Taipei for 6 weeks for the most fulfilling experience of your life. You learn to love travelling and make some amazing friends while teaching about Canadian Culture to children. You’re going to fall in love on this trip, and not have it returned and be okay with it. You’ll convince him to go for it, to get the girl of his dreams. You’ll come back different, and I’m so happy that you get to experience that.
5. You don’t end up alone. For a long time, we felt that we were never going to be loved and that it was wrong to cry over boys. It turns out that we find someone who loves us for us. All of those extra baggage friends were wrong. It’s okay to cry over exes and heart breaks, because without them you won’t know who you are and who you are meant to be. You’re strong now, and you’re confident and you are you. You will actually find someone who doesn’t want you to change, and who makes you smile every time you see him. He’s a keeper, so don’t give up. He’s coming your way. It won’t be perfect at first and you’ll have to fight to get to it. But you do fight for it, and I’m so proud of you.

When you are 25, you will finally love yourself.