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Great thread.
I'm 24 and I've moved around a lot in my adult life. I was raised in Florida, jetted off to Rio de Janeiro when I was freshly 18, lived there for a while with a guy that was emotionally abusive, then left and went to go live with my best friend in Cleveland who I ended up being with. This relationship is great but sometimes I look at my peers who did things like go to college, get into a career they love, etc, and I feel.. behind. I'm a freelance illustrator trying to break into the comic industry and my boyfriend and I hold minimum wage jobs and we're still trying to move out of his parents house. Hopefully next month it'll happen.
Anyway, if I had to do everything all over again, I wouldn't change anything. I've learned a lot about life, love, responsibility, remembering what's important, etc. I just get impatient sometimes. When I was a teenager I thought I'd be so much further at this age, like I'd be publishing my own comics or I'd have been picked up by Marvel or something. I know it's really stupid to think like that. I just have to take a step back every now and then and realize everything that I've done, and that I'm really only 24, not 45. I still have a lot of time.
Thanks for letting me vent /wg/!