Last week my friend, Maddie, emailed me this TED talk, “Why 30 is not the new 20”. It’s by the woman who wrote The Defining Decade— a book that all of my friends read last summer. I already knew the gist of her thesis, but one thing stuck out in my mind: she said,
“your twenties are the time when you become the person you want to be”, or something to that affect.
That quote has been rotating in my head since I watched the video and I feel like I’ve actually been making big strides in become the person I want to be.
This may sound trivial, but I’ve been keeping my room really clean and making my bed everyday. Ask anyone— my parents, friends, boyfriend— this is a big deal. To be honest, my previous neglect for my surroundings was mostly out of laziness, but it usually just made me more stressed out. Here, I literally I have no place to put my clothes besides my closet (see photo below) and I make my bed because I leave my window open and I don’t want dust in my sheets. [the bed is not made in this picture, but that’s because I’m sitting in it writing this blog post]
It’s weird though, because I feel like I have more time here to do things like, say, wash my face, and hang up my belt. This is totally not true. I for sure do more here after work than I ever did back home. I think it’s just a different mentality. Maybe it’s that I only have to focus on me here. Either way, I’m liking the change of pace. I hope to keep this up when I return to the states.
I’m excited to continue to work on becoming the person I want to be. Here are some things I’m thinking of adding to Hannah Wasserman 2.0.
-Early bird! I want to be the kind of person who enjoys waking up at 6am. Much to my father’s disappointment (sorry Rick!).
-Proactive! I think it’s probably the best way to live all parts of life.
-Increasing my depth of knowledge. With Twitter, it’s easy to know a little bit about a lot of things— I’d like to know a lot about anything.
–Less talk, more action. I’d like to up my doing.
I’ll update you on my progress and let me know if you have suggestions on how I can be a better adult.
In other news, I made dinner tonight! Look out for a new regular feature, “White girl cooks Indian food”