a farewell letter to my 20s
to the last decade of my life, I can't believe it's already time to say goodbye. well, in a way I can, because it feels like we've been together forever. the memories before you are faded and have blurry outlines, like they're water damaged from being submerged in my mind for so long. but the ones with you are like a box of fireworks- contained now by the limits of the past, but exploding brightly with a kaleidoscope of colour and sound and sweet chaos, fuelled by an impulse for wilderness and sensation and exclamation, sometimes dangerous, pressurized contents, vivid light etched on my vision, visible even when I close my eyes. a show. a celebration. a shared experience. a delight. a force pulling strangers together. sometimes scary, making dogs howl in the distance. sometimes pointless, sometimes too loud. and now it's over, it's time to walk back home in the summer night, and the quiet. we had so much fun together. I think we made literally hundreds of friend
