Adulthood the Second (or is it the sixth?) Time Around

While there are still many a goal to be accomplished, it’s important, during the course of things to celebrate victories big and small. A couple of years ago on this very same blog I was writing about my desirability, or lack thereof, in the online dating world. I’m too lazy (and technically inept) to link the old blog here, but from memory I remember saying that I wasn’t exactly anyone’s “catch” seeing as how I was living at home, with no money/income/job, no car, and no cell phone. Well, all of that has changed for the better as I enter what feels like a second adulthood. I had my own place, car, cell, and plenty of disposable income (perhaps more than I’ll ever have on hand again—who knows—maybe Jeopardy can change that around if I should touch down on the West Coast again, but I digress…) at the ripe ol’ age of 21, and in before I was 23, I had upgraded from the dorms at USC to an apartment in Orange County, upgraded the Corolla to a fast car (and a faster chick to boot), and of course the obligatory cell phone (when the flip phone was still more or less cutting edge technology).

Maybe I had too much too fast. I had upwards of 20K saved up from the scholastic hustles, and received nearly double that amount from an inheritance. In any case, back to the point, these lax criteria for adulthood, or at the very least dating desirability were all met over a decade ago. To summarize for those who are just tuning it, I would lose and gain, gain and lose, go and come, and come and go, mentally, geographically, financially, etc., over the course of the next decade. For whatever reason, this time it feels different. I pretty much stay to myself these days, and tend to my own affairs, knowing that it’s all on me from here on out, to live as I want to live, and sing the songs I want to sing. Should I need someone else’s advice/input, I’ll ask for it, but as for assistance, unlikely. Approval? Nope.