21

Tomorrow, September 8th, will be my 21st birthday. One can consider this part of their life as a milestone, a time for celebration, and the start of your real "adult" life. But, I don't know how I want to feel about it yet. Yes, it is cool knowing that after tomorrow there will never be an issue with me purchasing alcohol or being carded at a bar. On the other hand, whether I was 21 or not, I would still be drinking on the weekends with my friends and enjoying my time. Like always, I really think I am just overthinking on the subject and should be very excited to drink legally! And go to bars! And call an Uber at 3:45 am to get home alive! (Don't know if I want to get that belligerent, but it is always an option).

I really am excited to urn 21, though. In my eyes, turning 21 marks a new chapter in your life where you aren't really just a college student (for those who are in school) or just someone who is working full time or just graduated high school a few years ago. I feel like turning 21 is the start of something new. New mindsets, new responsibilities, new areas of life to be explored. Shoot, I'll be turning 30 soon and who knows what I'll be starting in that part of my life. Hopefully it'll be something that consists of having a steady and well paying job with a family that my wife (whomever that will be) (if I find one) (I'm already stressing about my life 10 years from now) and I will take care of and support through thick and thin. It seems that I have strayed away from the idea of me turning 21, lets backtrack a little bit.

New responsibilities, new areas of life to be explored. Lots of my buddies have told me "Dude you gotta go to the bars downtown!" or "Let's go to Cha-Cha's!" and many other things that are related to those. I'm not too sure if I'll ever be a bar or club kind of guy, but who knows. I didn't think I'd be at VCU 3 years ago, and look at where I am now. I'm actually in the library right now making this post on a school computer because my lovely laptop is lingering at home with some technological issues that neither myself or the IT department at VCU can figure out. But hey, that's how life goes sometimes!

I skated for the first time in what, 2 days yesterday? 2 days isn't a lot to be honest, but sometimes when I'm not skating all I can think about is the next time I'll be back on my board. That's true love right there!

School is going well so far, but I've been sick for the last couple of days and I want to scream and break a wall and make a scene. I'm not going to do any of that because that's dumb but thinking about it makes it seem less unrealistic.

So what should I do tomorrow? There's a beer and wine festival at Maymont, or Byrd Park. Not too sure. Maybe I'll buy a case and crack open a few cold ones with the boys. My birthday is on a Friday, so I kind of HAVE to do something exciting, right?

Either way, whatever that happens tomorrow is what happens tomorrow. I'm excited to turn 21 and be able to go out with my buddies and not have to use the excuse "I'm too young!". I am finally of age... :)

But until the clock strikes 12 tomorrow, I have a boatload of homework and studying to do. Which means I'll be looking up random facts and articles in Google for about an hour or so. Cheers!