Jesus, who is that girl! She looks so calm, so focused, so sure of the next five years of her life. And her hair looks utterly manageable.
Damn, my twenty-one-year-old self had it all going on. She thought she knew absolutely everything. She was meeting all sorts of wonderful men, learning all sorts of wonderful things, reading all sorts of wonderful books. She was planning to move to London after college, where she'd work in a glamorous public relations firm and have dinner out with her lawyer boyfriend three nights a week.
Little did she know that at twenty-four she'd be working at a technology company, buying a piece of property in California, worrying about American politics, dating all sorts of non-British men and going back to long hair!
I'm so restless these days; I feel so much younger than I did when this photo was taken. My life is so much richer to be sure, but also so much more tumultuous. God help you if you want in on the ride.
