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Cheers To 20 Years!

20: "The Best Years Of Your Life"

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Cheers To 20 Years!
Michela Bates

Everyone keeps telling me "Enjoy your 20's! They'll be the best years of your life!" That's a lot of pressure to put on a girl! The past two decades of my life have been full of blessings, mistakes, lessons, laughs, and lots of love. I was fortunate enough to have been given the two best parents in the world that have guided me and helped me be the young woman I am today. I am so thankful for the foundation my family has laid for me to build myself upon.

I think the next ten years will be amazing, the best? I'm not sure about that, but I do know they will be amazing because I won't waste them. In the next ten years I will graduate college, graduate school, and hopefully start a family. The next ten years will be full of important decisions, lessons, and lots of growing up.

I'm ready to embrace this next chapter and embark on every journey I am presented with. Twenty comes with a lot of stigma to change, grow up, and get it together, and I think that a lot of people find that scary, but I am excited. These next ten years can help shape the life I want to create for myself, and while they may be critical, they won't define who I have to be for the rest of my life so I won't be scared of them. I welcome the next ten years of change, growing up, and getting it together with arms open wide.

I would be lying if I said I wasn't at least a little scared of what the next decade will hold. I think it's natural to be a little scared of the unknown. I have no idea where I am going these next ten years, I just know I'm going and I hope I have fun getting there making memories with people I love.

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