A millennials notes on aging.
Its me, the 35-year-old version of you.
Are you sitting down?
I am because my lower back starts to hurt when Ive been standing for too long.
Trust me, theyre just as cute as those thriftedkitten heelsthat give you a recurring toe blister.
I know youre worried about these next few birthdays, and its not hard to understand why.
Hannah Baxter
After all, 2023 was unironically crowned the year of the girl.
Its great while also being completely awful and weird.
You made it out relatively unscathed and embarked upon your first decade of full-fledged womanhood.
Hannah Baxter
This is the price we must unwittingly pay with every passing year, and be advisedyou will pay plenty.
and recommit to that expensive prescription retinol cream.
You leave the office still feeling numb and not just from the topical anesthetic.
The question preoccupies far too much space in your overbooked and overstimulated mind.What else should I be doing?
Rather than identifying as young and dumb, you start to feel sexy and seasoned and elegant and wise.
The prospect makes you smile, lines be damned, as your confidence begins to blossom.
Were all going to get oldif were lucky.
Its lifes greatest, unstoppable equalizer.
You stop trying so hard to fight it and attempt, instead, to embrace it.
Instead, you question why theyve managed to endure in the first place.
Hold fast to this every time you look in the mirror.
Its a privilege, I promise you.
