“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
Plato
You made it!
Whether you’ve stumbled onto this page via my botched attempts at SEO, an internet rabbit hole, or me leaving this up on a computer in a Chicago public library (who am I kidding, it’s 2020, and the use of communal computers and libraries is nearly extinct) I’m not sure – but I like to think that you ended up on this page for a reason, whether it’s for a bit of escapism, maybe a soft chuckle, or a reinforcement of the belief that we really ought to stop encouraging Millennials that they’re good at everything, especially writing.
Wait! Before you scroll off into the internet’s abyss, I urge you to take a quick look at some of my musings in blog entries, where you might find something that resonates with you. I started this blog recently in an effort to help make meaning of the oft confusing and paradoxical years of my twenties – what better time to start that in the midst of a global pandemic and just shy of my 24th birthday?
Quarantine has made everyone think they’re a modern day Thoreau, but honestly, Walden wouldn’t have gotten off this ground without some much-needed solitude and a lack of anything exciting going on.
With that in mind, I’ve started gathering the experiences, embarrassments, and epigrams that I’ve seen and encountered during my time in the so-called defining decade of my twenties during the 2020s. While I can’t claim to have a glamorous and unattainable existence and spill secrets of high society, I like to think that being a little more down to earth makes me slightly more relatable. Sorry, Candace Bushnell, we can’t all have family money and a townhouse on the UES!
(I’ll dial it back – my “I’m not like other bloggers!” complex is showing.)
However you ended up here, I’d like to invite you to put your feet up, grab a glass of rosé, and stay a while – you might just find something you like. Or, you can just skip the formalities and send me cyber hate mail here. Think of it as your favorite mid-twenties dramedy that’s a little less privileged than Girls, much more diverse than Sex and the City and a lot more woke than Friends!
Cheers!
Sasha