“It's my birthday tomorrow 
No one here could now
I was born this Thursday
22 years ago
And I feel stuck
Watching history repeating
Yeah, who am I?
Just a kid who knows he's needy.”
I was thirteen the first time I heard this song. At thirteen my life felt so far away from what Jon Forman was talking about. I’ve always admired his lyrics and have been inspired by the songs he writes. It seemed like so many years since I would understand the bewildered feelings of twenty-two and yet here I sit on my computer the day after my twenty second birthday. The past two days I’ve been listening to Switchfoot’s Let That Be Enough and I’ve finally been able to understand it so much better.
I realized that everyone in their twenties is confused and nobody really knows the answers to life, especially at twenty-two. I’ve had the most interesting, infuriating, distracting and craziest year. It wasn’t the worst year and it wasn’t the best, but it is year that makes me yearn for a change. I’m ready to come up with adult solutions to other people’s high school problems; I’m ready to be a strong role model for my peers and the people that look up to me. I’m ready to feel and focus on god’s presence in my life. I’ve had to deal with so much crap this past year and even more just in the past week. I’m ready to live this year of my life in the name of love.
I want to hold my head up high this year knowing that no matter what others may think or say I am a good person. I will live my life at twenty-two remembering how to love god, love myself, and love the people who are important in my life. I deserve good things in my life. I deserve everything I’ve worked hard for, every last person that has the courage to love me and I deserve to be able to love them in return. I know with god in my heart that anything is possible. With the purity in my soul and the drive in my spirit I’ll have a good year. I have found a graceful new wisdom in twenty-two that I never had in twenty-one. Twenty-one is the year of foolish recklessness and although I do not regret any time I also do not wish to stay in that mindset. I’m excited to leave twenty-one behind because I realize it is just one year in so many to come. Now I look forward towards a future and working hard to be able to have the things I want. Someday I want to get married and have a family, but I need to establish myself. I need to live my life the best way I know how and not let others tell me otherwise. I’m the only person that knows my life and I want to live maturely. I’m still young enough to know how exciting life still is and yet old enough to know that it doesn’t last forever. The goal this year is to find the balance between being youthful and being smart. Let that be enough.
These is my life verse for today:
No one here could now
I was born this Thursday
22 years ago
And I feel stuck
Watching history repeating
Yeah, who am I?
Just a kid who knows he's needy.”
I was thirteen the first time I heard this song. At thirteen my life felt so far away from what Jon Forman was talking about. I’ve always admired his lyrics and have been inspired by the songs he writes. It seemed like so many years since I would understand the bewildered feelings of twenty-two and yet here I sit on my computer the day after my twenty second birthday. The past two days I’ve been listening to Switchfoot’s Let That Be Enough and I’ve finally been able to understand it so much better.
I realized that everyone in their twenties is confused and nobody really knows the answers to life, especially at twenty-two. I’ve had the most interesting, infuriating, distracting and craziest year. It wasn’t the worst year and it wasn’t the best, but it is year that makes me yearn for a change. I’m ready to come up with adult solutions to other people’s high school problems; I’m ready to be a strong role model for my peers and the people that look up to me. I’m ready to feel and focus on god’s presence in my life. I’ve had to deal with so much crap this past year and even more just in the past week. I’m ready to live this year of my life in the name of love.
I want to hold my head up high this year knowing that no matter what others may think or say I am a good person. I will live my life at twenty-two remembering how to love god, love myself, and love the people who are important in my life. I deserve good things in my life. I deserve everything I’ve worked hard for, every last person that has the courage to love me and I deserve to be able to love them in return. I know with god in my heart that anything is possible. With the purity in my soul and the drive in my spirit I’ll have a good year. I have found a graceful new wisdom in twenty-two that I never had in twenty-one. Twenty-one is the year of foolish recklessness and although I do not regret any time I also do not wish to stay in that mindset. I’m excited to leave twenty-one behind because I realize it is just one year in so many to come. Now I look forward towards a future and working hard to be able to have the things I want. Someday I want to get married and have a family, but I need to establish myself. I need to live my life the best way I know how and not let others tell me otherwise. I’m the only person that knows my life and I want to live maturely. I’m still young enough to know how exciting life still is and yet old enough to know that it doesn’t last forever. The goal this year is to find the balance between being youthful and being smart. Let that be enough.
These is my life verse for today:
Colossians 1:17
“He is before all things and in him all things hold together.”
1 Peter 4:19
“So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should commit themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.”
Maybe they are my life verses for this year?
“He is before all things and in him all things hold together.”
1 Peter 4:19
“So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should commit themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.”
Maybe they are my life verses for this year?
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